Oooh, there was some hot news at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco for parallel programmers last week. Intel has been working on an extension to Javascript that adds a parallel array type to the web’s favourite scripting language, which means you can unlock the power of multiple cores in browser-based code. As you [...]
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Last year, I wrote about how the group of technologies loosely dubbed HTML5 will make it easier to create multithreaded web applications. Today, I came across a compelling demonstration from Google. It’s a fractal generator that can create Julia sets, Mandelbrot sets and Newton sets inside your browser, using Javascript. Fractal images like this have [...]
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You might remember that I blogged last year about a new experimental programming language that Google has created to tackle today’s programming challenges, including concurrency. It’s called Go and I was reminded of it again when I saw that Rob Pike gave a talk at OSCON about it. MIT’s Technology Review quotes Pike as saying [...]
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