Multy-core CPUs

Jason Johnson jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 25 18:15:56 UTC 2007


Thanks for the summaries.  The language does sound interesting, I admit.

On 10/25/07, Matej Kosik <kosik at fiit.stuba.sk> wrote:
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> Peter William Lount wrote:
> > Hi,
> >> Matej Kosik wrote:
> >> Anyone followed links that Andreas gave?
> >>
> >>     http://www.erights.org
> >>
> >> ???
> >>
> >> There is a dissertation that addresses two fundamental problems:
> >> - - it introduces synchronization mechanisms that are meant to escape
> >>   from the situation where you
> >>   - either have interference
> >>   - or non-deterministic deadlock
> >>   (Erlang does not solve these problems.
> >>    The recent book about Erlang does not even mention the word
> >> "deadlock")
> >> - - *security*
> >>
> >> It is a point-of-view-changing reading.
> >>
> >
> > It would be helpful if people pointed to specific web pages or papers
> > rather than simply pointing to ENTIRE web sites. Even better would be to
> > quote the material (unless that's inappropriate for copyright reasons)
> > in their posting. It does take a while to digest this stuff and there
> > are lots of links and papers flying around. Thanks very much.
> >
> > Is there a particularly cogent link on erights.org that we should look at?
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
>
> Some initial examples:
> After some initial introduction:
> http://www.erights.org/elang/intro/index.html
>
> These things might be understandable
> (concerning distributed programming, and event-loop concurrency)
> http://www.erights.org/elib/index.html
>
> Many things (together with reasons why they are done as they are done) is sequentially described here:
> http://www.erights.org/talks/thesis/index.html
>
> Some powerbox examples (in the E programming language as well as in other programming language) is here:
> http://altair.sk:60001/mediawiki/upload/f/f9/Powerbox-rants.article.pdf
> It is basic technique; not available in Erlang. Available in some (I do not say in every respects
> perfect) other languages.
>
> I am sure, at e-lang
> http://www.eros-os.org/mailman/listinfo/e-lang
> you might get detailed answers for questions.
>
> Best regards
> - --
> Matej Kosik
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> skype: matej_kosik
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