Re: Cores are cheap, it's how to use them...
> Transputer and Occam not worth mentioning in the context of efficient message-passing?
I wanted to emphasise that CSP is even more applicable now than 30 years ago. While Occam and the Transputer were so closely coupled that the CSP primitives had equivalents in the instruction set, the XMOS take on CSP is IMO very clever because it addresses the problems that limited adoption of the Transputer and Occam. Specifically, the computational performance advantage of a RISC architecture, and reluctance to write substantial software in new languages.
And £10 will get one an XMOS devkit to play with...
As for me, I'm very happy to be working for a "Transputer company" that _still_ has a modular multiprocessing vision; even more so that when we had a clear-out last year there were some TRAMs needing a new home..
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