As usual in computer science, the hardware team is leaping way ahead of the software team.
Saman Amarasinghe, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT is behind a new data flow-based programming development approach to assist “ordinary sequential programmers” to write efficient parallel code to exploit such as Intel’s new 4-core processors.
StreamIt isn’t a magic bullet, but certainly deserves a careful evaluation. For sure probabilistic debugging is not likely to deliver the high reliability software we are all demanding.
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