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Re: Next Big Thing

Date 2011-08-17 08:19 +0200
From Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no">
Newsgroups comp.arch
Subject Re: Next Big Thing
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Andy "Krazy" Glew wrote:
> I have already talked about how, back when I was an undergrad Programmer
> on Duty, I would teach people to use a concurrent assignment construct
[snip]
>
> This is exactly the sort of thing that people used to hardware languages
> are used to doing.

Working in hw, it seems kind of obvious that you are working with 
wavefronts (clock signals and data) passing over all your various 
resources; programming then becomes the problem of getting as much use 
out of them as possible, while the usual multithreaded problem of 
synchronization sort of goes away.

Is this the right way to think about it?

Terje
-- 
- <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"

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  Re: Next Big Thing Stephen Fuld <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> - 2011-08-16 08:24 -0700
    Re: Next Big Thing Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2011-08-16 08:51 -0700
      Re: Next Big Thing MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com> - 2011-08-16 12:17 -0700
        Re: Next Big Thing "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-08-16 18:00 -0700
          Re: Next Big Thing Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"> - 2011-08-17 08:19 +0200
            Re: Next Big Thing Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org> - 2011-08-17 12:40 +0000
            Re: Next Big Thing "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-08-17 08:20 -0700
              Re: Next Big Thing MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com> - 2011-08-17 10:43 -0700
                Re: Next Big Thing nmm1@cam.ac.uk - 2011-08-17 18:19 +0100
                Re: Next Big Thing "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-08-17 23:39 -0700
                Re: Next Big Thing nmm1@cam.ac.uk - 2011-08-18 07:27 +0100
  Re: Next Big Thing torbenm@diku.dk (Torben Ægidius Mogensen) - 2011-08-17 10:49 +0200
    Re: Next Big Thing Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2011-08-17 05:37 -0700
  Re: Next Big Thing mac <acolvin@efunct.com> - 2011-08-18 22:23 +0000
  Re: Next Big Thing Morten Reistad <first@last.name> - 2011-08-24 20:44 +0200
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