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Concurrency, parallelism, and the many threads of Santa Claus πŸŽ…

Victoria Drake on December 24, 2019

Consider the following: Santa brings toys to all the good girls and boys. There are 7,713,468,100 people in the world in 2019, around 26.3% of whi...
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SavagePixie

Of course, none of this explains how reindeer manage to fly.

Which comes to prove that the world is still full of mystery and wonder. Happy Christmas!

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RENARD Laurent

Very nice article again! I particularly appreciated the fact you mentioned the differences between concurrency and parallelism which are often confused together.
In the Javascript world, this is an important point to have in mind: thanks to the event loop you can achieve great concurrency with a single thread. I wrote about it in the context of testing software if that is an interest to you or your readers.

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Nijeesh Joshy • Edited

Wow, What an amazing read, 🀩. Must read for all junior devs. Merry Christmas.

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Darren Vong • Edited

Great intro to concurrency and parallel programming with a fun festive twist! Merry Christmas!

[...] they’re all made by Santa’s elves at his North China Pole workshop.

This had me πŸ˜‚

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Diretnan Domnan

Oh well Santa is multithreaded... there goes the magic

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Ashfaq H Ahmed

What a great example and timely indeed. Thanks for this. Cheers!