On 07. 05. 2011 13:37, Igor Stasenko wrote: > On 7 May 2011 07:25, Michael Haupt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> And do not forget the most important thing: people must be educated to >> program for parallelism. The computing power is there to be exploited, but >> programmers need to know how to exploit it. You can't rely on the compiler >> or VM alone. > That's the main problem, IMO. Most smalltalkers i met (oh.. why.. not > just smalltalkers), > fear parallelism like fire. Refer to it as something too complex they > can't understand. > And i think that's why "Parallelism to masses" approach is largely > failing , not just in smalltalk, > but in whole software industry. Web frameworks are ones who would benefit from multicore Smalltalk instantly and without exposing concurrent programing complexities to web app developers. All paralell programing/execution complexity can be nicely encapsulated/hidden in web framework itself. And actually is now already, because we need to handle parallel web requests all the time. Best regards Janko -- Janko Mivšek Aida/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si
