1 Functional concurrency foundations
This chapter covers
- Why you need concurrency
- Differences between concurrency, parallelism, and multithreading
- Avoiding common pitfalls when writing concurrent applications
- Sharing variables between threads
- Using the functional paradigm to develop concurrent programs
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For the past 50 years, the hardware industry has experienced uninterrupted improvements. Prior to 2005, the processor evolution continuously delivered faster single-core CPUs, until finally reaching the limit ...
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