[Haskell-cafe] Python's big challenges, Haskell's big advantages?

[Manlio Perillo]

Tony Finch ha scritto:
> [...]
>>> context switching times,
>> That's probabily the same as thread switching time.
> 
> Competent language-level concurrency support (as in Haskell and Erlang)
> makes a context switch about as expensive as a function call, thousands of
> times faster than an OS-level process switch.
> 

I know.
But when using the term "thread" one usually assume kernel thread.

Of course if we talk about user threads it's a whole new story.

> Tony.


Manlio Perillo