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
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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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