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New Languages Vs. Old For Parallel Programming

Posted by timothy on from the nothing-new-will-ever-happen dept.

joabj writes "Getting the most from multicore processors is becoming an increasingly difficult task for programmers. DARPA has commissioned a number of new programming languages, notably X10 and Chapel, written especially for developing programs that can be run across multiple processors, though others see them as too much of a departure to ever gain widespread usage among coders."

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  1. Re:What's so hard? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    How many lines does it take you to parallelize this with pthreads in C?

    One. Newline characters are for wimps.