Why port array languages such as Apl to Parallella ?

[Dr.BeauWebber]

[aolofsson]

Dr. Webber,
Thank you so much for porting APL to Parallella! This totally makes my day!
If I understand correctly, you are suggesting something like pipes to communicate between APL programs running on different cores. Any thoughts on the possibility of actually extracting data parallelism and computation from the APL program. Does APL have properties that makes it a better starting point for "auto parallelizing compilers" compared to standard procedural languages like C? I know there have been some publications to this effect, but not sure how practical it is.
Andreas

[Dr.BeauWebber]

[Dr.BeauWebber]

[Dr.BeauWebber]

I have started a new topic : Inter-process communication on the Parallella to continue this communication discussion.

[shr]

Array programming lanugages should be a good fit for the Parallella, though efficiently mapping APL and friends to its architecture will take some work.