To me it seems that APL and J are probably the best languages around to support multi-core machines as nothing needs to be done to programs written in either of these languages to exploit multi-cores.
On Dec 17, 2007 12:40 PM, Devon McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
