Comments on: Project Fortress: A Multi-core Language for Multi-core Processors http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4730/ Open Source, Open Standards Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:31:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: djb http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4730/#comment-4969 djb Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4730/#comment-4969 Fortress is a very intriguing language. I eagerly await its completion. For example, in Fortress, tuples -- including function argument lists -- can be built/executed in parallel. There is a nice parallel block statement<br /> <br /> do ... <br /> also do ... <br /> also do ... <br /> end;<br /> <br /> Check out more at the fortress project site. If you do download the Fortress project to try at home, please be aware that (at the time of this article's publication), the language and runtime are still under development. In particular, the runtime is still all interpreted and therefore is fairly slow - certainly not comparable with Fortran... yet.<br /> <br /> If you explore Fortress and learn more, please contribute to the Fortress wiki at http://projectfortress.sun.com/Projects/Community/wiki , so others can benefit from what you learn. The folks on the fortress mailing list (see the project home page for links) are also very responsive and helpful. Fortress is a very intriguing language. I eagerly await its completion. For example, in Fortress, tuples — including function argument lists — can be built/executed in parallel. There is a nice parallel block statement

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Check out more at the fortress project site. If you do download the Fortress project to try at home, please be aware that (at the time of this article’s publication), the language and runtime are still under development. In particular, the runtime is still all interpreted and therefore is fairly slow – certainly not comparable with Fortran… yet.

If you explore Fortress and learn more, please contribute to the Fortress wiki at http://projectfortress.sun.com/Projects/Community/wiki , so others can benefit from what you learn. The folks on the fortress mailing list (see the project home page for links) are also very responsive and helpful.

]]> By: shoeb1981 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4730/#comment-4970 shoeb1981 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4730/#comment-4970 Good initiative, well designed, but extremely unreadable. Good initiative, well designed, but extremely unreadable.

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