Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Date: Tue Oct 04 2005 - 08:00:43 EST


On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 08:27:45PM -0500, Chase Venters wrote:

> The bottom line is that the application developers need to start being clever
> with threads.

yep! ah. but. see this:

http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2004-December/038300.html

and think what would happen if glibc had hardware-support for
semaphores and mutexes.

> I think I remember some interesting rumors about Perl 6, for
> example, including 'autothreading' support - the idea that your optimizer
> could be smart enough to identify certain work that can go parallel.

http://www.ics.ele.tue.nl/~sander/publications.php
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=582068
http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/acsd/2003/1887/00/18870237.pdf

to get the above references, put in "holland parallel code
analysis tools" into google.com.

put in "parallel code analysis tools" into google.com for a different
set.

l.


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