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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,30dd116614f4610e X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Protected Objects And Many Processors Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:48:06 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <4d39cbde$0$6882$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> <1shedfqd2b0n9$.ldkhs4t7s9cw$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: si1wcqmfPAlDmjwCD+0L/g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.00 (Win32) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16622 Date: 2011-01-21T22:48:06+01:00 List-Id: Le Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:35:47 +0100, Dmitry A. Kazakov = a =C3=A9crit: > Tasks marshaling parameters. There existed architectures in early 90s,= > which used networked massively parallel processors rather than cores. = I > mean transputers. Arguably, they came to early and targeted the high e= nd > segment. What a pity these architectures did not end to be more popular. Before t= he = Pentium was released (I knew a bit about CPUs at that time), I expected = = there will drop this kind of architecture and go to multi-processor = motherboard instead. But they did not, they increased the speed of one C= PU = only. I feel for long, parallelism is more important than clock speed (a= nd = you can add CPUs like you add memory). I do not know enough about the architecture based on Core, I do not know= = the relevant differences between two cores and two CPUs, so I could not = = tell (I just guess something is shared, but what and with which = implications=E2=80=A6 I do not know). -- = Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es= t pas pour = les chiens. =E2=80=9CI am fluent in ASCII=E2=80=9D [Warren 2010]