On 27/8/08 10:10, "Avi Kivity" <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Message passing, using the right language tools (in C that unfortunately
>> means writing your own or going back to 60s textbooks)
>> 
>
> Oh, if we're talking languages, then I'm all for pure functional
> languages. If you are side effects free, you can let the runtime do all
> the threading for you automatically.
Practical efficient implementation of this is still an open research
problem, I believe. At least as far as auto-parallelisation is concerned.
It's one of those pure-functional-language myths.
 -- Keir
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