There has been continued interest on this forum and elsewhere in the APL community about taking advantage of the up-and-coming generation of multi-core machines. Ideally, this would be transparent to the programmer but this is probably an unrealistic ideal, at least for the near future. If you take a look at this Slashdot thread - http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/1635200- you'll notice several informed responses focusing on the idea of parallel programming as intrinsically different from serial programming.
I've mentioned how I've been able to take advantage of my dual-core machine for some problems. If anyone else has done this, it might be instructive to put up a wiki page or two with some examples of how to do this. A minor example is here: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/NYCJUG/2007-03-13#head-0c69d286922c2243a3e9c74bb1f06a4d9e88bbfd. -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
