Re: What is your favorite parallel programming paradigm?

On Fri, 25 May 2007, Marco van de Voort wrote:

On 2007-05-24, Robbert Haarman <comp.lang.misc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

even though, of course, the second might be how the first is actually
implemented. That is, I am primarily concerned with how a program is
expressed by the programmer. So my original question is really: how
would you like to express programs that are parallelizable?

Well, that is the catch. There is no strategy that fits such a broad
statement. Since any syntax is limited to a certain problem domain, and the
border conditions are different.

I guess that pretty much summarizes the difference between our
philosophies: you appreciate the generality of a solution while I
appreciate its applicability to the current problem.

Of course, it should be as easy as possible to integrate problem-specific
solutions with each other and the general purpose "glue solution".
(Specifically, domain-specific or otherwise restricted languages aren't
much fun if it's difficult to use them from a general-purpose language.)

- Ville Oikarinen
.

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