2
votes
3answers
204 views

Functional Programming: right ideas about concurrency and state?

FP proponents have claimed that concurrency is easy because their paradigm avoids mutable state. I don't get it. Imagine we're creating a multiplayer dungeon crawl (a roguelike) using FP where we ...
1
vote
2answers
603 views

Performance of concurrent software on multicore processors [closed]

Recently I have often read that, since the trend is to build processors with multiple cores, it will be increasingly important to have programming languages that support concurrent and parallel ...