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[Rob Lingelbach]

On Jul 24, 2008, at 8:25 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>>  There is a very good article in American Scientist (my favorite  
>> magazine) back 9 months ago or so that talks about how finally,  
>> multi-core CPUs are bringing the threading nature of programming  
>> into reality, many decades after its conception.
>
> This article is good and accurate.

that's good to know, as I'm totally magazine-starved here in Kiev-  
I've read my 4 New Yorker issues 12 times, and my 2 American Scientist  
issues 4 times each, at least.  Helps to condition your memory.   (now  
I've found out how to get back issues via FedEx!! hurrah)

>  Multitasking is much easier to accomplish than accellerating one  
> task via mutithreading.

a new mindset may be called for, eh.   Or, could there be, some kind  
of interpreter, that splits up code into modules (well that's  
multitasking isn't it) ... but on a threaded basis?   I guess it's  
like talking parallel vs. serial, and there's no way around it.

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Rob Lingelbach
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