[fpc-devel] Russian locale information not compatible withFPClocale variables

[Florian Klaempfl]

Daniël Mantione schrieb:
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> Op Thu, 31 Jul 2008, schreef Michael Schnell:
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>>> The reason is that the cache coherency algorithms don't scale.
>> This again is a software problem.
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> Cache coherency algorithms are implemented in hardware.
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>> If the task to do allows it the software needs to be written in a way 
>> that the cache coherency is not disturbed.
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> Easier said than done, because threading always involves multiple cores 
> operating in the same address space, which means the cores need to 
> communicate which core has which page in cache.
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>> BTW all "super-computers" feature thousands of CPUs, but of course 
>> this is not simple SMP.
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> Like I said, the HPC world did move to distributed memory with message 
> passing years ago and is not using threading. Threading simply didn't 
> scale enough.

Nobody said that mt support is limited to smp systems.