On 29 April 2011 01:03, Stefan Marr <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 29 Apr 2011, at 00:32, Nicolas Cellier wrote: > >> >> However, as I understand it, it's entirely up to user to write code >> exploiting parallel Process explicitly right ? > Sure, you have to do: n times: [ [ 1 expensiveComputation. ] fork ]. > > I don't belief in holy grails or silver bullets. > Automatic parallelization is something nice for the kids, like Santa Clause > or the Easter Bunny... >
Indeed :) People tend to forget that parallel algorithms are different by nature, and there is no way to automatically convert arbitrary single-threaded algorithm to parallel one, without thinking about rearranging data structures and control flow. > > Best regards > Stefan > > -- > Stefan Marr > Software Languages Lab > Vrije Universiteit Brussel > Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium > http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr > Phone: +32 2 629 2974 > Fax: +32 2 629 3525 > > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
