From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,4215feeab2a8154a X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!news.weisnix.org!newsfeed.ision.net!newsfeed2.easynews.net!ision!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: C++0x and Threads - a poor relation to Ada's tasking model? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <81a101a3-b46e-4268-973c-356c6119ee2b@c14g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> <2785ff1e-661b-41ce-95a8-cef2862e2907@b14g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> <6239906b-e952-4bf9-8a11-b7faf942bdde@k19g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> <270bf4df-4d0b-4621-9005-80ef8ab51634@s31g2000yqs.googlegroups.com> <08na85tgfqucfb21lq82fug7b4ctn0astl@4ax.com> <4a856d74$0$24772$4f793bc4@news.tdc.fi> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:17:47 +0200 Message-ID: <1o3fd8dx5hlo7.f7mjeuvjghll$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Aug 2009 16:17:14 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 65bfd480.newsspool2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=8BCEl4bmo0[AX0F2i>kgR7dMd8]LcC8Y X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7786 Date: 2009-08-14T16:17:14+02:00 List-Id: On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:58:00 +0300, Niklas Holsti wrote: > Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > >> I wonder if transputers will make a come back. Arguably a multi-core memory >> sharing architecture is a dead end. Transputers had local memory. If they >> return as systems with 1000 and more loosely coupled nodes (cores), what >> will be a programming of look like? Ada's rendezvous will probably shine >> again... > > The XMOS multi-core chips look like a born-again transputer system. See > www.xmos.com. The CTO is David May of Transputer fame. But no Ada > compiler so far, it seems. Cool! Thank you for the information! I was unaware of this. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de