More Interest In Parallel Programming Outside the US?

Posted by kdawson on Monday March 24, 2008 @07:40PM from the maybe-it's-the-language dept.

simoniker writes "In a new weblog post on Dobbs Code Talk, Intel's James Reinders discusses the growth of concurrency in programming, suggesting that '...programming for multi-core is catching the imagination of programmers more in Japan, China, Russia, and India than in Europe and the United States.' He also comments: 'We see a significantly HIGHER interest in jumping on a parallelism from programmers with under 15 years experience, verses programmers with more than 15 years.' Any anecdotal evidence for or against from this community?"

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Nowt wrong with C and POSIX threads by Nursie · 2008-03-25 00:08 · Score: 0, Flamebait

They'll allow you to use threads most happily and not take you too far away from the hardware.

The fact that you actually have to think a bit more about who's accessing what data at what time, and avoid trvial problems like deadlock, does not make it "too hard". And the fact that C is not ideal for parallelising mathematical operations doesn't make it useless either. Threads can be doing totally different things, or be pooled for great joy.