On Tue, April 10, 2007 3:19 pm, Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > > Well I only glanced at it at the time so I also await enlightenment. > But I did find the description of such languages here interesting: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_language > "This distinction may seem minor, but the paradigm shift is fairly > dramatic, and allows dataflow languages to be spread out across > multicore, multiprocessor systems for free."
Ah, I have a glimmer. Like a microkernel it would allow <we hope> effortless division and dispatching of transform streams. But microkernels (and I probably should be forbidden from discussing such things) need a careful management of blocking and unblocked messages, no? Because otherwise they enter "race condition city." And that is a ticket to the locked wards on Bellview. And would not a pipe language have the same tendencies? -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
