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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!backlog2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:20:28 -0500 From: Brian Drummond Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C++0x and Threads - a poor relation to Ada's tasking model? Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:25:17 +0100 Reply-To: brian@shapes.demon.co.uk Message-ID: References: <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> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-XV7iThA3UZ+4rqTsD8Z7ny0D186uQSFOL0roFX4Jug5lGgICB94MQwz7bKO9iSO8PrYJIM3zs+8P872!GfCragPxekNqHemOz18Ta0YugN0rehqteZBm+iguXOCo2C2Nhu+RPAcnyIQkj7rulcmFh4ulEehp!a70= X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 X-Original-Bytes: 2428 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7803 Date: 2009-08-14T23:25:17+01:00 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. Plus the starter system is pretty affordable... https://www.xmos.com/products/development-kits/xc-1-development-kit free time to play with it is more of a problem! - Brian