Sorry to the group if that last e-mail came off as rant'ish.
I think some focus on studies would be nice, but why does it feel like (to
me) that we are aimlessly picking "this versus that" studies?
I would start instead by using expert knowledge, and work from there. For
example, parallelism exp
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> Prompted by various discussions elsewhere, I am on the search for recent
> experimental results and/or people doing or about to do experiments.
> The questions all relate to the models of parallel software:
> shared-memory multithreading, Ac
Folks,
There have been tasks looking at using different techniques for concurrent
and parallel programming.
I posted one example to the Lambda the Ultimate front page a few months
ago. Please see "Is Transactional Programming Actually Easier?":
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4070
Something
Meredydd Luff's is an interesting study and paper.
However,
(1) The title is explicit that this was about PARALLEL programming,
and that's what the task was. The results from a CONCURRENT programming
task might well be different. For parallel programming, something like
HPJava might be better.
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Thomas Green wrote:
> How someone doing something on understanding these programs? I always found
> that experiments on understanding programs were much easier than ones on
> writing programs. Far less inter-subject variability.
At the expense, of course, of system
Hi Meredydd
Brave effort.
How someone doing something on understanding these programs? I always
found that experiments on understanding programs were much easier than
ones on writing programs. Far less inter-subject variability. Now that
you have suitable materials, it might be possible fo
Hi Russel,
I did a pilot study along those lines a couple of years ago,
attempting to compare performance with the Actor model, Transactional
Memory and traditional mutex locking. (Not quite the precise
distinctions you're looking for, but at least in a similar ballpark.)
17 subjects attempted a s
Prompted by various discussions elsewhere, I am on the search for recent
experimental results and/or people doing or about to do experiments.
The questions all relate to the models of parallel software:
shared-memory multithreading, Actor Model, Dataflow Model, Communicating
Sequential Processes (C
