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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada lacks lighterweight-than-task parallelism
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 09:13:22 +0200
Date: 2018-06-20T09:13:22+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pgcuqh$7ij$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dbc90b0f-dc9b-4e5d-8009-7f02547055ca@googlegroups.com

On 2018-06-20 03:41, Dan'l Miller wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 8:12:02 PM UTC-5, Shark8 wrote:

> I'm not saying anything negative about tasks.  I am just saying that there should be more games to play in the casino than merely one and only one.
> 
>> As for something lightweight, we're working on that in the ARG right now:
>> * PARALLEL DO blocks,
>> * Parallel LOOPs [IIRC, it might be just FOR], and
>> * And some other things like operators, blocking-detection, etc.
> 
> Excellent!  These should produce slices for numeric computations.  I am not as sure that they alone(!) will necessarily produce usable slices regarding non-numeric arbitrary processing via deep call-trees of subprograms.

So it is not "lightweight", it is "scalar" parallelism.

The latter is quite a niche and IMO has no place in the language being 
to low-level. It better be handled in the form of hints for the compiler 
to deploy a certain form of optimization.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-20  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-19 22:14 Ada lacks lighterweight-than-task parallelism Dan'l Miller
2018-06-19 22:23 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-06-20  0:03 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-06-20  0:41 ` Lucretia
2018-06-20  1:36   ` Dan'l Miller
2018-06-20 13:39     ` Luke A. Guest
2018-06-20  1:12 ` Shark8
2018-06-20  1:41   ` Dan'l Miller
2018-06-20  7:13     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2018-06-20 12:03       ` Dan'l Miller
2018-06-20 12:29         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-06-20 13:14           ` Mehdi Saada
2018-06-20 13:38             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-06-20 14:01               ` Mehdi Saada
2018-06-20 14:32                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-06-29 22:01                   ` Randy Brukardt
2018-06-29 22:15                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-06-29 22:47                       ` Randy Brukardt
2018-06-30  8:41                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-06-30 15:43                           ` Brad Moore
2018-07-01  9:46                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-02 13:13                               ` Marius Amado-Alves
2018-07-02 15:05                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-02 16:01                                   ` Marius Amado-Alves
2018-07-02 16:48                                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-06-20 15:58                 ` Niklas Holsti
2018-06-29 21:58                 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-06-21  0:19               ` Shark8
2018-06-21  9:09                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-06-21 14:42                   ` Shark8
2018-06-21 15:55                     ` Dan'l Miller
2018-06-27 11:49                       ` Marius Amado-Alves
2018-06-21 16:06                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-06-22 17:06                       ` Shark8
2018-06-22 18:53                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-06-21  0:17         ` Shark8
2018-06-20 12:28 ` Brian Drummond
2018-06-21  1:51   ` Dan'l Miller
2018-06-21 10:22     ` Brian Drummond
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