On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre@bergel.eu> wrote:

I remember to have seen a presentation from Intel when they opened their center in Ireland. They are targeting a 64 core CPU. I am not expert in concurrency, but there is clearly more than a paper to write about.

Alexandre

On 20 Dec 2010, at 20:29, Stefan Marr wrote:

> Hi Alexandre:
>
> On 20 Dec 2010, at 23:54, Alexandre Bergel wrote:
>> "I would like a Pharo Core image running nicely 16 core on the RoarVM.
>> That requires just to fix a few more concurrency bugs, should not be to hard."
>>
>> Wow... What's a quote!
> All kidding aside, the amount of concurrency related constructs in Smalltalk is very manageable.
> And interestingly, form what I have seen so far, there are a number of problematic idioms which make things fast on the standard VM, but rely on scheduling guarantees.
>
> My gut tells me, that a significant number of those bugs which are still bugging me, could be found with pattern detection, code smell analysis or what ever you want to call it.
> They should be formalizable and detectable.
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> We would have people with the right tools and knowledge at the lab, unfortunately with the wrong interests...
> And there should be a paper in there. Any volunteers? ;)
>
> Best regards
> Stefan
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>> :-)
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>> Alexandre
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>>> On 18 Dec 2010, at 20:16, Torsten Bergmann wrote:
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>>>> Only a few days until christmas. You should tell Santa your wishes for Pharo here on the list - who knows maybe in one of the next releases or announcements...
>>>>
>>>> Let me be the first:
>>>> - easy to use foreign interface including callback support for
>>>> all major platforms
>>>> - reliable (new) squeaksource which includes a one-click image
>>>> so one can easy setup an own (internal) server
>>>>
>>>> Thx
>>>> T.
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