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Article #444Re: Coverage of multitasking
From: David Keppel
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1989 23:03
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1989 23:03
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genesch@aplvax.jhuapl.edu (Eugene Schwartzman) writes:
>[Teach parallelism, but not beginning, maybe sophmore.]
I disagree, but I don't know the reasoning behind parallelism as one
of the 11 CACM topics.
Parallelism can be quite complicated. But it can also be quite
simple. Consider filters in Un*x. It is pretty easy to understand
what's going on in `eqn foo | tbl | troff'. I've seen (and written!)
a fair number of programs where some kind of threads and pipes would
have made writing the program *simpler* by removing a level of
intermediate data structures.
;-D on ( Opinions move faster than light ) Pardo
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!pardo From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Coverage of multitasking Message-ID: <8972@june.cs.washington.edu> Date: 9 Aug 89 23:03:23 GMT References: <2592@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> Reply-To: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) Organization: University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle Lines: 17