RE: Visualising comparative programming language performance

[gary ng <garyng2000@...>]

While we are talking about language, it seems that erlang and K/Q(from KDB+) have an interesting approach about parallelism. You can kind of just specify the number of threads(usually matching the number of cores) on launching the session and let the runtime determine how to parallize them.

It may not beat the hand coded algorithm but based on the benchmark I have read, it is pretty effective.

--- On Wed, 6/3/09, Paul Hudson <phudson@pobox.com> wrote:

> From: Paul Hudson <phudson@pobox.com>
> Subject: RE: Visualising comparative programming language performance
> To: "'Lua list'" <lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br>
> Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 1:13 AM
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> > Which language has most elegant parallel syntax? Can
> that graft
> > to Lua easily?
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> Occam. And "no" :)
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> (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam_programming_language)
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