Parallel-safe lambdas

Mark Thornton mthornton at optrak.co.uk
Thu Feb 11 03:11:25 PST 2010


Rémi Forax wrote:
> Mark, I don't think we need to distinguish between restricted
> and unrestricted closure.
> I prefer the idea to avoid shared states to let the implementation
> choose if the code has to be run parallel or not.
>   

I think that is the restriction (no shared state) to which Stephen and 
Olivier are objecting. In fact I think they are saying that shared state 
is so important to their view of lambdas that they would prefer to 
discard the parallel use of lambdas.

Mark



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