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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 ...
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Uses of persistent data structures in non-functional languages
Languages that are purely functional or near-purely functional benefit from persistent data structures because they are immutable and fit well with the stateless style of functional programming.
But ...
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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 ...