Re: Parallelism and Concurrency was Re: Ideas for a Object-Belongs-to-Thread threading model (nntp: message 20 of 20 -last one!-)

2010-05-16 Thread nigelsandever
On Fri, 14 May 2010 17:35:20 +0100, B. Estrade - estr...@gmail.com +nntp+browseruk+c4c81fb0fa.estrabd#gmail@spamgourmet.com wrote: The future is indeed multicore - or, rather, *many-core. What this means is that however the hardware jockeys have to strap them together on a single node,

Parallelism and Concurrency was Re: Ideas for a Object-Belongs-to-Thread threading model

2010-05-14 Thread Richard Hainsworth
After reading this thread and S17, I have lots of questions and some remarks. Parallelism and Concurrency could be considered to be two different things. The hyperoperators and junctions imply, but do not require, parallelism. It is left for the implementors to resolve whether a single or

Re: Parallelism and Concurrency was Re: Ideas for a Object-Belongs-to-Thread threading model

2010-05-14 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 03:48:10PM +0400, Richard Hainsworth wrote: : After reading this thread and S17, I have lots of questions and some : remarks. : : Parallelism and Concurrency could be considered to be two different things. : : The hyperoperators and junctions imply, but do not require, :

Re: Parallelism and Concurrency was Re: Ideas for a Object-Belongs-to-Thread threading model

2010-05-14 Thread B. Estrade
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 03:48:10PM +0400, Richard Hainsworth wrote: After reading this thread and S17, I have lots of questions and some remarks. Parallelism and Concurrency could be considered to be two different things. The hyperoperators and junctions imply, but do not require,

Re: Parallelism and Concurrency was Re: Ideas for a Object-Belongs-to-Thread threading model

2010-05-14 Thread B. Estrade
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 09:50:21AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 03:48:10PM +0400, Richard Hainsworth wrote: ...snip But as you say, this is not a simple problem to solve; our response should not be to punt this to future generations, but to solve it as best as we can,