From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2007-01-24T02:15:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for massively multi-core chips?

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On 1/23/07, Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@nasa.gov> wrote:
>
> How to best evolve Ruby to accommodate 80-core
> CPU programming?
>
>   http://www.ddj.com/dept/architect/196901985
>
> Or does it already?



Decompose large tasks into a number of cooperating processes (not threads)
that approximates the number of cores available. Knit them together with
asynchronous messaging and write your programs in an event-driven style.

Best practices for doing the above? Not quite there yet, but a lot of people
are working on them.

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