26 Jun
2018
26 Jun
'18
9:50 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 05:16:56PM -0400, Arthur Krewat wrote:
On 6/26/2018 3:01 PM, Ronald Natalie wrote:
So I agree, had the same initial reaction. But I read the paper a
second time and the point about Fortran, all these years later, still
being a thing resonated. The hardware guys stand on their heads to
give us coherent caches.
I???m not sure I buy his arguments.
I was
going to say it was total and complete BS, at least based on the
quoted statement in the initial email. But I decided not to send it. ;)
I wrote a POSIX thread based queuing system a few years back that could
handle thousands of threads on a dual processor SPARC-10 before it just
completely locked up Solaris (I think 9). It was targeted at larger systems,
and it could easily scale as far as I wanted it to.
While you could argue that pthreads are not "C", the language was quite
happy doing what I asked of it. Sometimes, I wonder... Programmers are supposed to be
smarter than the
language. Not the other way around.
That's a great quote. But I do sort of grudgingly see the author's
point of view, at least somewhat.
--lm