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- From: peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
- Subject: Re: IBM's FIRST RISC System/6000(tm) based Shared Memory Parallel Processor
- Message-ID: <id.I6TV.241@ferranti.com>
- Keywords: mp shared-memory parallel multiprocessor risc smp
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <1g86boINNh5m@fido.asd.sgi.com> <lifvl6INNan3@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 21:57:18 GMT
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- chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase) writes:
- > I've had this nagging suspicion for about a year that people building
- > MP's were working awfully hard to maintain coherency where it just
- > didn't matter. Given that most of the programming languages tell you
- > to lock your data if it is shared, the "we're guarding against this"
- > examples always looked like buggy programs to me.
-
- I guess that depends on what the consequences of running these buggy
- programs are. Are they guarding against bringing the whole system down
- (unacceptable) or simply crashing a single application (acceptable)?
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