From: "Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com>
Subject: Re: Ada and multi-core CPUs
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:48:04 -0500
Date: 2005-09-12T10:48:04-05:00 [thread overview]
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tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> I finally got around to testing a sort. I split the data array in half,
> sorting one half with the main program and the other with a separate task,
> then merged the two half-results. It's substantially (about 60% as long
> for 100K floats) faster than splitting, sort one half, then the other
> half, then merge. And easy to program in Ada.
Write it up and submit for publication. Chip Multi-Processing
(multi-core CPUs) seems to be a hot technical issue; it was the theme of
the latest (9/05) issue of ACM Queue.
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2005-09-09 21:33 Ada and multi-core CPUs tmoran
2005-09-10 8:27 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2005-09-10 17:27 ` tmoran
2005-09-10 22:01 ` Adrian Knoth
2005-09-10 22:49 ` tmoran
2005-09-12 16:21 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-09-12 15:48 ` Marc A. Criley [this message]
2005-09-12 19:43 ` tmoran
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