[m-dev.] Re: About to abandon .par grades...

[Peter Ross]

Julien Fischer wrote:

>On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Peter Ross wrote:
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>>Zoltan Somogyi wrote:
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>>>On 19-Oct-2004, Ralph Becket <rafe at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
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>>>>Thanks for the rapid response, Fergus.  I chatted briefly with Peter
>>>>Stuckey and he's keen that Mercury retain the .par grades, so maybe we
>>>>shouldn't be too hasty to abandon them.  Zoltan, would you be satisfied
>>>>if we (a) adopt one of Fergus' recommendations for the fix and (b) make
>>>>it clear in the NEWS file et cetera that, for various reasons, we may be
>>>>unable to fix problems to do with parallelism?
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>>I seemed to miss this problem with the .par grades?  Is it on-list?
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>The only bits that are on-list are already here.  The specific problem
>is with hlc.par.gc/hl.par.gc - the runtime seg faults shortly after
>starting execution.
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In this case, I think that I really need to see the emails, it is pretty 
crucial to our business that the parallel grades work.  We are after all 
building scalable software that needs to be able to handle many multiple 
requests at once.  I suggest that it would be helpful if someone 
forwarded the entire thread to the list.
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