anything with multicore support out of the box, c can have multicore support but it's harder to write, it all comes down to being harder to do and ppl being fucking lazy
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Anonymous2008-01-09 2:49
>>9
ppl being fucking lazy: true
[parallel programming] being harder to do: WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? NO IT ISN'T!
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Anonymous2008-01-09 4:01
>>10
you have more things to worry about. it contributes to the overall complexity of the code.
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Anonymous2008-01-09 5:28
>>11
No it doesn't. If you have a codebase and workload of any size, you already have data isolation, and blocking becomes a serious issue. Going parallel from the get-go is easier.
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Anonymous2008-01-09 5:33
>>11
Depends on the language. Of course you have more things to worry about when you use C and have indiscriminated acces to the computer's memory
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112008-01-09 5:56
If you have a codebase and workload of any size, you already have data isolation, and blocking becomes a serious issue.
Yeh, I was mostly thinking about the dinky little programs that I work with. For most of the projects I've worked on, parallel programming isn't necessary and trying to shoehorn some parallel model into whatever we already had was a useless cognitive burden. I have also been in a couple of projects where hindsight vision showed me where going parallel would have been very useful.
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Anonymous2008-01-11 17:44
>>11
Yes, is it hard (an absolute term, instead of relative to non-concurrent programming) - not as much as people make it out to be. The myth that concurrent programming is too hardTM comes from all the (Windows? is it fair to blame it on windows? probably not) programmers who are so used to thinking non-concurrently that the paradigm shift to concurrent seems overly hard. It's a relative thing, not an absolute thing. Obviously it's harder because it's more complex (as you said), but how much harder is blown out of proportion because people are taught how to program single-threaded non-concurrent applications too well before they are taught how to program concurrently.
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Anonymous2008-01-11 17:46
>>15 grr should have read what I wrote again before posting, I messed up what I was trying to say ;-) I think you can still understand my point though.
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Anonymous2009-03-18 3:27
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Trollbot90002009-07-01 9:28
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Anonymous2011-01-31 20:06
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