Hacker News Reader

Whether pmap is faster than map depends a lot on the duration of the task: see http://incanter.org/downloads/fjclj.pdf page 45

View on HN

Anecdotally, at what point this is true also seems to depend on the host OS. Windows 7's pmap was beneficial at a lower n than Mac OS X's for a simple O(n) function. I have always wondered why this is.

A beautiful deck, may I add!

interesting.

The video: http://clojure.blip.tv/file/4645227/

Reply on news.ycombinator.com