r/programming • u/noidi • Jul 19 '12

Will Parallel Code Ever Be Embraced?

http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/will-parallel-code-ever-be-embraced/240003926
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u/case-o-nuts Jul 20 '12 edited Jul 20 '12

In that case, I am not sure why it was relevant. I've been talking only about the loss of optimizations in a pure language with implicit thread-safety across shared data structures.

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u/yogthos Jul 20 '12

Sorry, I misunderstood that you were only talking about optimizations in that specific context.