Parallelism in Lisp
Steele, Guy L.
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/224133.224134
Abstract
Maybe not as hot a topic in computer architecture as it used to be, but still of considerable interest, is parallelism. How do you make a faster computer? Just strap 20 or 200 or 2000 processors together? As we have learned, the architectural and hardware difficulties are immense (How do you connect them? A shared bus? A network? Is there a single system clock or many clocks?), and after these have been solved there remains the matter of programming.
Journal: ACM SIGPLAN Lisp Pointers
Volume: VIII Issue: 2 Pages: 1-14