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Re: [gomp] Challenges in Implementing OpenMP
On Thursday 21 October 2004 16.08, Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> Being opposed to abstraction on the grounds that it stands
> in the way of last nanosecond efficiency is an attitude
> that was more common in 1960 than now :-)
Not that so: I realise that HPC is a niche in the market, but if you spend
some figure with 5 or more zeros for a machine, you really want to make the
most of it (otherwise you needed not buy it right from the beginning). For
instance, we still keep writing matrix multiplications in assembly :-(
Biagio
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