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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e0e1d3b3f7c994b8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!u69g2000hse.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Maciej Sobczak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over other langauges in multiprocessing! Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 06:52:03 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <13t4b2kkjem20f3@corp.supernews.com> <89af8399-94fb-42b3-909d-edf3c98d32e5@n75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.3.200.49 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1205070724 30621 127.0.0.1 (9 Mar 2008 13:52:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 13:52:04 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u69g2000hse.googlegroups.com; posting-host=85.3.200.49; posting-account=bMuEOQoAAACUUr_ghL3RBIi5neBZ5w_S User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20256 Date: 2008-03-09T06:52:03-07:00 List-Id: On 9 Mar, 02:09, Christopher Henrich wrote: > > the point is that all this multicore > > hoopla revolves around performance, *exclusively*. > > Not correctness? No. Nobody builds multicore CPUs *because of* correctness. It is the performance that is a motivator here. Correctness is a domain of progamming languages, not multicore architectures. -- Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com