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Re: Re: Parallel Kit Question: ParallelDot is much more slow than Dot

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  • Subject: [mg40546] Re: [mg40510] Re: Parallel Kit Question: ParallelDot is much more slow than Dot
  • From: Dr Bob <majort at cox-internet.com>
  • Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 20:28:25 -0400 (EDT)
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Just wait.  In my lifetime, C will be in the museum, and everybody will use 
interpreters.  Even the interpreter writers.

>> Your "I have to wait" assume ...

I didn't say I have to wait.  I said I'm content to wait.  Should I have 
bought a multimillion-
dollar computer twelve years ago that would be worthless today?  Not on my 
budget!

Thirty years ago, EVERY programmer used a multimillion-dollar computer.

Twenty years from now, NO programmer will.

That's the trend.  Get used to it.

Bobby

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 01:29:39 -0400 (EDT), Jens-Peer Kuska 
<kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> If C code is really a hundred times faster, so I have to wait longer for
>> increases in processor speed to wipe out the difference, all the better!
>> It's even more time that I could have wasted on a low-level language, 
>> but
>> didn't, thank goodness.
>
> And than you run some kind of software museum (?)
> that solve historical problems of scientific computing
> with modern computer hardware?
>
> Your "I have to wait" assume that the problems are the
> same over 5-10 years. But the C/C++ guys did not wait,
> they start to solve larger and more and more complex task
> over the years while you are waiting.
>
> Regards
> Jens
>
>



-- 
majort at cox-internet.com
Bobby R. Treat



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