Re: [Bug-apl] Parallel progress

2014-09-12 Thread Blake McBride
Dear Juergen, Very exciting! I think being able to take advantage of multiple processors is what will make the difference for APL. Thanks! Blake On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 5:17 AM, Juergen Sauermann < juergen.sauerm...@t-online.de> wrote: > Hi, > > there are some good news from the parallel fr

[Bug-apl] Parallel progress

2014-09-12 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi, there are some good news from the parallel front. I have replaced the semaphores that control the fork() and join() off threads by a new, busy-wait based, mechanism. That has reduced the fork() and join() times considerably: from the