Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Oct 2005 13:59:55 +0100 | From | Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <> | Subject | Re: what's next for the linux kernel? |
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On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 08:27:45PM -0500, Chase Venters wrote:
> The bottom line is that the application developers need to start being clever > with threads.
yep! ah. but. see this:
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2004-December/038300.html
and think what would happen if glibc had hardware-support for semaphores and mutexes.
> I think I remember some interesting rumors about Perl 6, for > example, including 'autothreading' support - the idea that your optimizer > could be smart enough to identify certain work that can go parallel.
http://www.ics.ele.tue.nl/~sander/publications.php http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=582068 http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/acsd/2003/1887/00/18870237.pdf
to get the above references, put in "holland parallel code analysis tools" into google.com.
put in "parallel code analysis tools" into google.com for a different set.
l.
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