Henry Rich Reveals J with Threads J9.4
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The Mutex, the Few Text, Is Just a Problem, the Problem Is, Is There Any Work?
Instead of using mutex, there's a shared location in memory. You don't have to grab the mutex. It's implied in the way the few text works. And it's just more efficient. We can measure the difference and the speed that heavily multitask jobs take. That's as a result of all the threads being able to look at the same memory. If they couldn't do that, you wouldn't be able to use a few text. Is that right? That's right: It only works. Yeah.
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