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From: mshute@r4.uucp (Malcolm Shute)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Compilers vs. architecture
Message-ID: <652@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: 9 Feb 90 14:59:50 GMT
References: <8905@portia.Stanford.EDU> <4812@brazos.Rice.edu> <651@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
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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