Re: [Bug-apl] Parallel for OS/X

[Elias Mårtenson]

This stackoverflow article seems to discuss this very subject: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10177217/pthread-mutex-vs-atomic-ops-in-solaris

I think that's the atomic operation you need.

Regards,
Elias

On 23 Oct 2014 21:09, "Juergen Sauermann" <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

I did some rework of the parallel stuff so that it might compile now under OS/X and possibly other platforms. SVN 498.

On non-linux machines core affinities are not set explicitly. However all GNU APL threads are 100% busy
unless GNU APL is blocked on input. The scheduler of the OS should normally detect this and place
the threads on different cores even if their core affinities are not set explicitly.

Please try the ScalarBenchmark,apl workspace.

The bare minimum that is needed for parallel APL on other platforms than linux or OS/X  (Solaris ?) is some
atomic fetch_and_add() function.

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