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From: Christopher Henrich <chenrich@monmouth.com>
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Subject: Re: Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over
 other langauges in multiprocessing!
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In article 
<89af8399-94fb-42b3-909d-edf3c98d32e5@n75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
 Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8 Mar, 07:04, "ME" <abcd...@nonodock.net> wrote:
> > As many of may have already noticed, there has been a tremendous furor over
> > the lack of multicore support in the common languages like C and C++.
> 
> No, I did not notice it. It is possble that I've been just too busy
> writing multithreaded software in C and C++ and that's why I've missed
> this furor.
> 
> > Robert Dewar ,our hero, has written an absolutely excellent
> > article with a clever 
> > intro.http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=2069002
> > 65
> 
> No, he didn't write anything special. Actually, there is a lot more to
> this subject that he didn't mention.
> Take for example lock-free algorithms. There is no visible research on
> this related to Ada, unlike Java and C++ (check on
> comp.programming.threads).
> Ada will most likely miss the "multicore revolution", unless it will
> *really* focus on performance - the point is that all this multicore
> hoopla revolves around performance, *exclusively*.
> 
Not correctness?

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Christopher J. Henrich
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