Re: [Axiom-developer] sbcl and Axiom

[Ralf Hemmecke]

>     Axiom does not use threads or multiple processors but this is
>     clearly the future direction of hardware. We need to find algorithms
>     that can be done in parallel and work up an example that gives linear
>     speedups based on the number of processors. 
>
>
> You need very good language support to make this practicable.
> Also parallel algorithm tend to be significantly more complicated.

http://www.aldor.org/projects.html#compiler

Don't forget to look into Pi^it

http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/mannhart/publications/issac98posterabstract/index.html
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/mannhart/piit/index.html

and ParAldor

http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~bj/paraldor/WWW/

Ralf