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A bigger problem than people writing concurrency poorly is that they jump to concurrency too soon and think it is going save them from their performance problems. It almost certainly won't.

Contrary to the growing popularity of message passing concurrency, modern commodity hardware is not massively parallel and jamming massively parallel algorithms on top of it generally is a mismatch. You are almost certainly better off having a few well defined threads that are fast than unbounded threads that are slow.



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