Re: [Algorithms] General purpose task parallel threading approach

[<chr...@pl...>]

> "Other than classroom examples, software is NOT written through
> composition of 'general components'. And even in the small subset
> of software writing where your statement may hold true, writing
> those components was a very small amount of work of the total."
>
> No, every piece of software in a modern language is written through
> composition of "general components", from the machine code op-codes,
> up to the language constructs they come from, up to the libraries,
> patterns and algorithms they're constructed with.

The fact that you have to rely on labelling assembly instructions
and for-loops as "general components" to provide support for your
initial statement shows how weak your statement was.


Christer Ericson, Director of Tools and Technology
Sony Computer Entertainment, Santa Monica