I would not agree with that. Parallelism is very much architectural if
it to be better than yet another layer of software loading down what is
a non-parallel architecture.
It will be some time before the technology filters down to the mass users.
Joe Wilson wrote:
--- John Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Threads simulated in software are a kludge to better utilize current
processor and operating system architectures. In time machines where
the parallelism is handled in hardware will be more widely available and
the threading will be transparent and highly efficient.
I first read the above as "In time-machines ..." instead of
"In time, machines...".
The solution to parallelism is a software problem.
Hardware just provides the platform. The decomposition of tasks
to be run in parallel and their coordination is ultimately up to
the programmer and the computer language/compiler.
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