Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: matrix multiplication
Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 15:31:03 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 8
Message-ID: <87efvj6tzs.fsf@nightsong.com>
References: <de96ca50-66d1-4518-a2a5-103dac0bebfb@googlegroups.com> <39defc56-99d0-42d7-8242-c16df26ca409@googlegroups.com> <2017May19.171325@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2017May19.192659@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2017May20.122135@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <a7cd6738-5a15-4ac0-a042-8a80f1529d61@googlegroups.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="1428644ced5a33850cf0b0ec2633c4e3"; logging-data="26886"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/NdCCFVJiQBuGAyqzkzjyP"
User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:Jk1G/weXOvw2b4zx1SKj0Ld0+ak= sha1:CoBrHAzr0VeAf9EU/oX4bOBszQ0=
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:59614

krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org writes:
> A next step could be to do the computations in parallel on a
> multi-core system...  Do gforth, vfxlin, and swift forth provide fork
> and mmap syscalls, or equivalents?

Before that I'd suggest generating some vector code to use the Intel
multimedia instructions or on-chip graphics processor, and after that
use a GPU.