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- From: cs.kun.nl!erwin@overmind.mind.org
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- Subject: Parallel Forth's
- Message-ID: <2178773@overmind.citadel>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 04:53:00 GMT
- Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Hi,
-
- We are working with our own ANS Forth implementation for the INMOS
- transputer and (among other things) we are experimenting with parallel
- computing.
- Our main problem is that Forth is in the category of incremental
- compilers. This makes the standard implementation of multiprocessing a
- bit difficult. (The easy way is to first flood your program around the
- whole network and then start computing). Because each tranputer may
- decide to load more code a scheme where only program counters are
- communicated is useless. Currently we are thinking of sending simple
- forth commands to each node but we think it is too slow for real use.
- Have there been any discussions about this subject?
-
- Erwin Dondorp
-
- (P.S. This is more or less a private project, itoes not involve the
- above mentionned university!)
-