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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:48:04 -0500
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Subject: Re: Ada and multi-core CPUs
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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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