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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:58:00 +0300
From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: C++0x and Threads - a poor relation to Ada's tasking model?
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Date: 2009-08-14T16:58:00+03:00
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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.

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Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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