The Economist’s article on parallel programming that I mentioned previously pointed me to a parallel programming language I don’t think I’ve written about before: Chapel, which is being developed by Cray. This year, it celebrates its fifth birthday in the wild, although work began ten years ago when the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency in [...]
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Thought it might be useful to post the key survey findings from the Evan’s Data Corp report that I mentioned in an earlier blog. A massive 41.2% of global developer community have embraced multithreading, and 28.4% have plans to. Complexity (33.4%) comes out as the main barrier, suggesting that there are an awful lot of [...]
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“Multicore programmes will eventually create chains of state dependencies which will defy human comprehension, we are going to need new programming languages,” said an old-school coder to me yesterday. And it got me thinking. On the one hand, you can see his argument – some of the remaining problems with programming in parallel are incredibly [...]
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