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Shannon wrote:
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Think about the kind of
applications that use parallel "compute nodes" and you'll realise that
98% don't exist outside of academia and laboratories due to
synchronisation, network latencies and other issues that implementing
Javascript workers won't solve. More importantly though there is a lack
of general computing software that requires this model.<br>
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On second thoughts I withdraw these claims. I don't have the statistics
to know one way or the other why "portable threads" are more prevalent
than "share nothing" ones. There may be many reasons but latencies
probably isn't one of them. It could just be fashion or convenience.<br>
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Shannon<br>
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