From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG  Sat Oct 11 16:07:03 2003
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35F6116A4B3
	for <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org>; Sat, 11 Oct 2003 16:07:03 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from web13401.mail.yahoo.com (web13401.mail.yahoo.com
	[216.136.175.59])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B547D43FBD
	for <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org>;
	Sat, 11 Oct 2003 16:07:02 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from giffunip@yahoo.com)
Message-ID: <20031011230702.86509.qmail@web13401.mail.yahoo.com>
Received: from [200.91.194.71] by web13401.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP;
	Sat, 11 Oct 2003 16:07:02 PDT
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 16:07:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com>
To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Subject: Cilk: a multithreaded programming language
X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD <freebsd-ports.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports>,
	<mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports>,
	<mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 23:07:03 -0000

Hi;

The port I'm working on (TAUCS) wants to use Cilk:

     http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/cilk/

Cilk is a language for multithreaded parallel programming based on ANSI C. Cilk
is designed for general-purpose parallel programming, but it is especially
effective for exploiting dynamic, highly asynchronous parallelism, which can be
difficult to write in data-parallel or message-passing style. Using Cilk, our
group has developed three world-class chess programs, StarTech, *Socrates, and
Cilkchess. Cilk provides an effective platform for programming dense and sparse
numerical algorithms, such as matrix factorization and N-body simulations, and
we are working on other types of applications. Unlike many other multithreaded
programming systems, Cilk is algorithmic, in that the runtime system employs a
scheduler that allows the performance of programs to be estimated accurately
based on abstract complexity measures.
__________________

I'm having some problems building it (and it wants to use -pthread) so I would
prefer if someone with access to -current, and perhaps some interest in chess
;-), ports it.

cheers,

    Pedro.

__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search
http://shopping.yahoo.com