Re: Compilers vs. architecture

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From: Malcolm Shute
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1990 14:59

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>In article <4812@brazos.Rice.edu> preston@titan.rice.edu (Preston Briggs) writes:
>>My small bet for the 90's is [...]
>>Tools for writing parallel
>>and distributed code??
>
In article <651@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> I write:
> [Some things which interpret the above statement to mean 'Tools to help
> the programmer to explicitly express parallel and distributed code']

After hitting the send key, I realised that the author might have intended
to include the possibility of the tools being used 'behind the scenes'
by the compiler/run-time environment.

Since I accept that this interpretation exists, I agree with the statement,
and ask for 'no flames please' wrt my previous posting.

Malcolm Shute.         (The AM Mollusc:   v_@_ )        Disclaimer: all

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