C++ etc...

[Jakob Oestergaard]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:26:45PM +0100, Simon Hogg wrote:
> Errm, am I the only one who is failing to see the relevance of this 
> discussion to Beowulfery any more?

The language will matter at least as much as your choice of CPU, switch
brand, networking topology and so on, to the total performance of your
computational "solution" - so yes, I hope you are the only one failing
to see its relevance  :)

I, like most others probably, don't have time to keep up to date on all
languages in practical use today.  I most likely don't even *know* about
all languages in practical use today.

And I just love to see examples like the word-count program in Java (I
was surprised at that one!), C++ (I knew that one), and Fortran (I was
happy to see that Fortran has evolved somewhat since my F77+extensions
days).

I was even corrected on a C optimization issue (thanks Greg!). I learnt
something useful today  :)

The word-count example is in essence not so different from your average
factorization problem - languages abilities, compiler abilities,
optimization possibilities, raw code speed... these are parameters that
are all relevant to many 'wulfers.

The list is wery wide in it's subjects; everything from AC wiring to SMP
scalability, over Scyld installation problems to switch performance
measurements is regularly being discussed.  I for one do not feel that a
language discussion is the least bit off topic.  After all, we do code
in languages   :)

(well, except for the F...... people   /me runs   ;)

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