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Re:Guy Steele: "How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not" by rtghnthyjnm on Friday January 14, 2011 @09:05PM (#2106230)
Even in C++ it's pretty trivial to parallelize a loop with openMP.

The compiler could do it automatically but it's only a single line preprocessor directive.

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Re:Guy Steele: "How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not" by Someone on Saturday January 15, 2011 @12:20PM (#2107304)
Is it? Adding the directive is easy, but verifying that it does not change program semantics can be far from easy.

A parallelizing compiler must do the latter before doing the former.

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