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Do you see the loops, in C code and in Java code? /** Looping **/ (Re: Because of MIMD you have to reassess algorithms)

From Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity, sci.math
Subject Do you see the loops, in C code and in Java code? /** Looping **/ (Re: Because of MIMD you have to reassess algorithms)
Date 2026-07-23 00:10 +0200
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Hi,

CAS and XADD have no looping, they
are atomic operations, that take some
time but basically have some outcome

with some ACID property and a result
value. What loops is the ADT, the Abstract
Data Type that you implement. Respectively

the client that uses the Abstract Data Type.
In your case you added the loop inside the
Abstract Data Type or lower level aggregate

code of a higher level operation:

Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
void producer(double state) {
     uint32_t ver = XADD(&head, 1);
     cell& c = cells[ver & (N - 1)];
     while (LOAD(&c.ver) != ver) backoff(); /** Looping **/
     c.state = state;
     STORE(&c.ver, ver + 1);
}
https://groups.google.com/g/lock-free/c/acjQ3-89abE/m/a6-Di0GZsyEJ

In my case I added the loop during the client
usage of the ADT:

From: Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm>
Subject: Source of the benchmark for DmitryVyukov
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:44:21 +0200

     private static void producer(Queue q) {
         for (int i = 0; i < WORK; i++) {
             Integer val = Integer.valueOf(i);
             while (!enqueue(q, val)) ; /** Looping **/
         }
     }

Do you see the two loops, in your C code
and in my Java code? They are marked with a
comment /** Looping **/ .

You see them, don't you? But I don't know
exactly what backoff() does. Sometimes loops
are spurious yield loops, required because

an ADT cannot gurantee that every yield
implies a certain condition. This is for
example already found in the intrinsinc

monitor of Java, the wait(). You might consult
Doug Lea about the matter and how idiomatic
Java code looks like dealing with

spurious yields.

Bye

Ross Finlayson schrieb:
> On 07/20/2026 11:59 PM, Mild Shock wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Because of MIMD you have to reassess algorithms.
>> A spin loop which could really hurt non-MIMD
>> GPUs, might less hurt a MIMD GPU.
>>
>> Basically you have to reassess algorithms. Be
>> very exact whether your claims relates to
>> non-MIMD or to MIMD. You can toy around
>>
>> with WebGL, mainly made for non-MIMD, here:
>>
>> https://www.shadertoy.com/
>>
>> and with WegGPU, mainly made for MIMD, here:
>>
>> https://compute.toys/
>>
>> The compute toys page, supports two shader
>> languages, WGSL and Slang. I made my GPU
>> experiments only with WGSL.
>>
>> So I don't know Slang either. Things I
>> don't know in the GPU world are:
>>
>> - OpenGL 4.2 and later
>> - Slang https://shader-slang.org/
>>
>> Things I have meanwhile hands on, and which
>> I plan to integrate into library(edge/brainfog):
>>
>> - WGSL https://webgpufundamentals.org/
>>
>> Bye
>>
>> Mild Shock schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I went to holdays in June 2026, had an idea for
>>> a pi-WAM based on a Hack, the later is described here:
>>>
>>> Emulating π-WAM in Dogelog Player
>>> https://medium.com/2989/de9cd29c7d37
>>>
>>> The Elements of Computing Systems
>>> https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539807
>>>
>>> In July 2026 I did the CPU and GPU experiments,
>>> moving from emulator to native executor based in
>>> realizing Hack as a concrete virtual machine,
>>>
>>> and not as an abstract machine emulated in Prolog.
>>> The GPU experiments were done in WebGPU / WGSL.
>>> So no, I never used OpenGL Version 4.2 and later.
>>>
>>> Also the name imageAtomicAdd indicates that
>>> imageAtomicAdd is rather from a render shader,
>>> while my GPU experiment uses a compute shader.
>>>
>>> Especially I need GPU compute shaders, which
>>> are not executed in lock step, but rather have
>>> indepdendent thread state, also known as MIMD.
>>>
>>> "In computing, multiple instruction, multiple
>>> data (MIMD) is a technique employed to
>>> achieve parallelism. "
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_instruction,_multiple_data
>>>
>>> MIMID showed up 2017 with NVIDIA Volta cards.
>>> But is now realized by Intel Arc, Snapdragon Adreno,
>>> AMD RDNA and Apple Silicon as well.
>>>
>>> Bye
>>>
>>> Chris M. Thomasson schrieb:
>>>> On 7/20/2026 4:32 PM, Mild Shock wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> imageAtomicAdd is trivial, but it does
>>>>> not help with bounded buffers.
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> Are you sure about that! ;^o
>>>
>>
> 
> How about Silicon Grid Engine and MPI, OpenMP and old cluster.
> 
> 
> Or old "batch jobs".
> 
> Batch jobs:  it's how work gets done.
> 
> 
> 
> You crazy frothing lunatic
> 
> 
> 

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