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Re:"Sequential programming is dead. So stop teaching it" by swombat on Thursday November 13, 2008 @12:25PM (#363265)
nor do any other program compiled for that architecture

Then none of the people writing those programs need to know or care about parallelism.

Therefore, the core message of the article is brain-dead.

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Re:"Sequential programming is dead. So stop teaching it" by crabapple on Thursday November 13, 2008 @12:47PM (#363298)
NO. why don't you READ before you reply

a program compiled for a multicore CPU will RUN. the question is how OPTIMALLY does it run. a program with no potential for parallelism will not get any parallelism. it will run, but run slow compared to programs designed for parallelism.

programs written to exploit parallelism will be programs that bring new approaches to data and state. functional languages provide this today, which is why lots of people think they will be the way forward for multicore.

honestly i think you are just bordering on being a troll. why don't you do some reading on this topic before writing more uninformed replies

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