Re: OPENMP
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Oct 15, 2013
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I saw a big addition to Euphoria at very little cost in effort and brought it to everybody's attention.
Having been a project leader, I can well understand the limitations of understanding of the larger picture on the part of C language or assembly language programmers.
You know that most computers are multi-cored, and that parallel processing takes advantage of this. You don't understand the challenges involved in getting parallel processing working in a useful way in euphoria, and possibly you also have a very poor grasp of estimating effort required in building software.
Actually, while this is generally true of EUWX overall, in this particular case he might not be too far off base (though I'm sure this is only by accident).
It might have a useful application in the dso-multithread branch, though I suspect the approach I use there to avoid the re-entry issues would significantly negate the speed advantages of switching to OPENMP.
