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Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.MapReduce: what next?
From: joel (joel.falcou_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-31 08:49:28


Philippe Vaucher wrote:
> I definitly agree.Concepts like map-reduce are still at the state of "heard
> of" for a lot of developpers, most of them think "it's a nice idea" but when
> they need concurrency their immediate real-world thinking is basic threads.
> Showing simple tasks solved the classic way and the map-reduce way, showing
> the pros/cons of each approach would be a nice thing to have.
>
I encourage you to see what Murray Cole and Marco Danelutto said about
the exact same thing on skeletons in 1999-2005.
The reasoning still hold.

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