Re: Compiler for a concurrent programming language.

Jeremy Bennett <jeremy.bennett@embecosm.com>
Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:09:01 -0500

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From: Jeremy Bennett <jeremy.bennett@embecosm.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:09:01 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 10-05-004 10-05-021 10-06-020
Keywords: parallel
Posted-Date: 13 Jun 2010 06:03:08 EDT

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> |What about SystemC (www.systemc.org)? It's a template library for C++ |
> |used in modeling hardware - which is highly concurrent." |
>
> Hardware is concurrent. The SystemC(R) standard is not concurrent: its
> semantics are explicitly defined in terms of cooperative tasks, only one
> of which runs at a time.


Hi Colin,


My statement was ambiguous. You have given the meaning I intended.


SystemC will allow you to write programs in a concurrent fashion, with a
semantic model that allows those programs to run on a single thread
(hence the use in hardware modeling). Simula67 is a much older
alternative (also I believe now with an open source compiler) offering
the same functionality.


Neither are any use if the OP actually wants to write programs to run on
real parallel hardware.


Jeremy


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