Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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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