Re: [Vala] Further speculations on couroutines, generators and threads : Emulating Go's goroutines and channels in Vala

[Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com>]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 07:43:14AM -0500, Jim Peters wrote:
> Serge Hulne wrote:
> > Here is a further development of the idea of Luca Bruno about a Vala
> > implementation for Generators:
> >
> > Simulating  Go's goroutines and channels in Vala:
> >
> > Basically the idea is to start as many threads as needed (which play the
> > role of Go' goroutines) and to recuperate their output from a "Generator"
> > (which plays the role of the "Go" channel form which the result from a given
> > thread can be pulled):
>
> Threads are very heavy compared to an optimised implementation of
> 'goroutines' or whatever.  Certainly you can emulate them but it's not
> going to be an efficient way of implementing algorithms unless someone
> puts in the work to make it efficient under the hood.
>
> If convenience matters more than efficiency, then no problem.

Do you have any benchmark? I wouldn't say that loudly in general.

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