Parallelism

[Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com>]

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Does anyone else find it odd that Elcomsoft is getting a lot of press
for something relating to cracking on video cards, when you could just
write your cracker in RapidMind and be done with the whole problem? No
doubt that was one of RapidMind's early test programs.

In any case, it's interesting that Linux Journal and MSDN Magazine are
both focused on parallelism lately. Both of them are a bit "off" in my
opinion. The answer is going to be a language that abstracts data
access that extra layer to make parallelism something your compiler
does for you. It's not going to be parallel additions to already
non-parallel languages. You have to love the "caveats" in MSDN
Magazine about using "Only one parallel loop at a time". And also
"Parallel exceptions in LINQ are non-deterministic"! Imagine the
hilarious security side effects from these sorts of half-backed
parallel solutions.

- -dave

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