toby wrote: > On Jun 7, 2:41 pm, Jon Harrop <j...@ffconsultancy.com> wrote: >> Arved Sandstrom wrote: >> > Jon Harrop wrote: >> >> I see no problem with mutable shared state. >> >> > In which case, Jon, you're in a small minority. >> >> No. Most programmers still care about performance > > Frequently when they shouldn't.
I disagree. A lot of software is still far too slow because the programmers failed to pay attention to performance. Blogspot in Firefox being one example: it can barely keep up with my typing! >> and performance means mutable state. > > Hm, not sure Erlangers would wholly agree. Erlang is about concurrency. This thread is about parallelism. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?u -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
