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From: Peter Zotov <whitequark@whitequark.org>
To: Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>
Cc: Raoul Duke <raould@gmail.com>, OCaml <caml-list@inria.fr>,
	caml-list-request@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] OCaml-Java is going alpha, to github
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:11:58 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40448e4581a57924e4eca25df7b5b61b@whitequark.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1405417081.4384.182.camel@e130>

On 2014-07-15 13:38, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:
> Go is in particular interesting because it provides a model of
> lightweight threading that can be backed by multiple cores.

You may want to know that Go is not memory-safe in presence of
race conditions. It uses multi-word fat pointers that cannot be
atomically updated, yet does not globally protect them with a mutex
"for speed", or prevent such updates using the type system.

-- 
Peter Zotov
sip:whitequark@sipnet.ru

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-15 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-14 22:15 xclerc
2014-07-14 22:21 ` Raoul Duke
2014-07-15  9:38   ` Gerd Stolpmann
2014-07-15 12:11     ` Peter Zotov [this message]
2014-07-15 22:52       ` Gerd Stolpmann
2014-07-16  7:44 ` Jacques du Preez

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