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echo: classic_computer
to: Andrew Ball
from: Dan Ceppa
date: 2005-02-16 13:53:10
subject: Parallel

On 16 Feb 05  03:15:48, Andrew Ball got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: Parallel

 DC> Still, the interesting part would be to get them to
 > work with each other to end up with a proper result.

 AB> Right, and entire books have been written about the question of how to
 AB> break down problems (or data) in a way that's well suited to
 AB> distribution across multiple processors.  I have a suspicion that
 AB> people who are used to thinking this way about programming challenges
 AB> may also produce code that works well in multi-threaded environments,
 AB> even if all of the threads end up running on a single processor. 

It's the way the brain works.  

The real problem is to insure that the computers don't get too 
intelligent and start off on their own!  


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