Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No I think they tried to just run a lot of processes at once and they > got the 8 core by just substituting the two dual cores with two quads.
Huh?! There are no quad core x86 cpu's as far as I know ;). > I used occam back in the eighties with ibm pcs and these 4 transputer > plugin cards. One of my bosses was Scottish MP and heavily into macro > economic modelling (also an inmos supporter). I seem to remember doing > chaotic gauss-seidel with parallel equation block solving, completely > pointless as the politicos just ignored any apparent results. Back of > the envelope is good enough for war and peace it seems. Heh :). OK, yeah, I remember Occam now, it used CSP (communicating sequential processes) for concurrency if I remember, sort of like Erlang? > Is suppose Alice isn't related to the "Alice Machine" which was a > tagged pool processor of some kind. I recall it being delivered just > when prolog and the like were going out of fashion and it never got > faster than a z80 on a hot day. No I don't think so. It's Standard ML with some concurrency extensions and a really nice toolkit: http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/alice/ Actually I'm not sure now whether it supports real multiprocessor concurrency. It looks cool anyway. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
