[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the same subject, this quote from Donald E. Knuth, Volume 4
fascicle 0 (new addition to The Art of Computer Programming, published
in may 2008)---Preface:
"Furthermore, as in earlier volumes of this serie, I'm
intentionnally concentrating almost entirely on _sequential_
algorithms, even though computers are increasingly able to carry out
activities in parallel. I'm unable to judge what ideas about
parallelism are likely to be useful five or ten years from now, let
alone fifty, so I happily leave such questions to others who are
wiser than I. Sequential methods, by themselves, already test the
limits of my own ability to discern what the artful programmers of
tomorrow will want to know."
I believe this is the biggest point in all of the hype around
concurrency as the
next programming paradigm: it is very hard to approach the algorithmic
side of it. And no, I'm not talking locking-hygiene, I'm talking design and
implementation of basic (and no so basic ) algorithms.
Thanks,
Roman.
