   A Concurrency/Multi-Processor/Mulit-Core forum?
  Well since we know the era of the "free lunch" is over, concurrent programming is upon us. SLIs, multi-cores, and consoles with multi-processors and multi-cores. shouldn't we have a forum that dedicated solely to this? it applies to most popular languages (Java, .NET, c/c++, etc). from what i've sene and dealt with it's a little more involved than general programming. thoughts?   
  I can understand the logic behind the suggestion... but a new forum is only likely to be created if/when a particular topic starts to dominate all other discussion in 1 or more forums. If people are asking so many questions and discussing so many topics that other non-multithreaded stuff doesn't get a look in, then you'd get a new forum.However, its been a while since I spent time in General Programming / Game Programming (where I'd imagine these posts currently belong) so maybe they are starting to take over [evil]Anyway, would you need multiple forums to handle multi threaded discussions? And, multi-threaded discussions sounds a bit like cross-posting to me, which is Bad™.hthJack   ;Quote:Original post by jollyjeffersI can understand the logic behind the suggestion... but a new forum is only likely to be created if/when a particular topic starts to dominate all other discussion in 1 or more forums. If people are asking so many questions and discussing so many topics that other non-multithreaded stuff doesn't get a look in, then you'd get a new forum.Well, I guess.....Quote:However, its been a while since I spent time in General Programming / Game Programming (where I'd imagine these posts currently belong) so maybe they are starting to take over [evil]Why [evil]? Is it because you don't like concurrent programming? [smile]Quote:Anyway, would you need multiple forums to handle multi threaded discussions? And, multi-threaded discussions sounds a bit like cross-posting to me, which is Bad™.huh? I completely lost you there. I'm not asking for "multiple forums" just one forum that handles issues dealing with: concurrency, programming for multi-core and/or multi-processors, and i guess distributed systems (that would fall under that category).;Quote:Original post by Alpha_ProgDesQuote:Original post by jollyjeffersI can understand the logic behind the suggestion... but a new forum is only likely to be created if/when a particular topic starts to dominate all other discussion in 1 or more forums. If people are asking so many questions and discussing so many topics that other non-multithreaded stuff doesn't get a look in, then you'd get a new forum.Well, I guess.....That's pretty much our standard policy on forums. We don't create forums if they're going to sit empty for a while.The place to begin catering for the area is via the articles and books section; once people come here and read them, they'll come back here to ask questions about them. Then we set up a forum.Quote:Quote:Anyway, would you need multiple forums to handle multi threaded discussions? And, multi-threaded discussions sounds a bit like cross-posting to me, which is Bad™.huh? I completely lost you there. I'm not asking for "multiple forums" just one forum that handles issues dealing with: concurrency, programming for multi-core and/or multi-processors, and i guess distributed systems (that would fall under that category).I think he was joking...   ;Quote:Original post by jollyjeffersAnyway, would you need multiple forums to handle multi threaded discussions? And, multi-threaded discussions sounds a bit like cross-posting to me, which is Bad™.Well, you would be able to split up a post in the forums, not discuss the same topic in both, so it wouldn't really be cross posting.Personally, I think a multithreading/syncronization forum may be a good idea at some point, but right now, it really isn't necessary. There are only a couple topics floating around GP that I've seen, so the forum may be completely dead.   ;Quote:Original post by superpigQuote:Quote:Anyway, would you need multiple forums to handle multi threaded discussions? And, multi-threaded discussions sounds a bit like cross-posting to me, which is Bad™.huh? I completely lost you there. I'm not asking for "multiple forums" just one forum that handles issues dealing with: concurrency, programming for multi-core and/or multi-processors, and i guess distributed systems (that would fall under that category).I think he was joking...Yeah, I was. Guess my attempt at humour failed [sad]Jack;  It's ok. I was being too serious.   ;Quote:Original post by jollyjeffersI can understand the logic behind the suggestion... but a new forum is only likely to be created if/when a particular topic starts to dominate all other discussion in 1 or more forums.SDL anyone? [grin]   ;Quote:Original post by gumpy macdrunkenQuote:Original post by jollyjeffersI can understand the logic behind the suggestion... but a new forum is only likely to be created if/when a particular topic starts to dominate all other discussion in 1 or more forums.SDL anyone? [grin]a.k.a. Alternative Game Libraries [grin];Quote:Yeah, I was. Guess my attempt at humour failed [sad]I think you succeeded :)