Hi Torsten,
My question concerning parallel search in Mozart 1.4.0 (see below) remained without reaction. I checked SVN and indeed the code for parallel search has not been touched for seven years.
Actually I experimented with parallel search a few years ago, but I concluded that it is unreliable (at least on Windows) and so I abandoned it.
3) Finally, I find it worrying that a new Mozart version (introduced without any MEP) changes the language in a backwards-incompatible way such that it silently breaks rather unique and powerful features of the language itself (such as the Parallel Search) and not "just" some user application. I feel it was foreseeable that a change to the distributed programming model may affect the parallel search -- it was the first thing I checked once I installed Mozart 1.4.0 (and I am no computer scientist, and know nothing about distributed programming as such).
I think that the 'new DP' development branch was created looong before MEPs arrived :-) (Please note, I'm not trying to sabotage the process!!) As I said, I think that parallel search never really worked (probably because of bugs in the old DP implementation).
Anyway, enough complaining -- it would just be good to get parallel search working again. Any ideas?
The old Parallel Search engine sits on top of the DP framework, and it might be that it is not too much code. So maybe you'll be able to take a look at it yourself (comparing calls to the 'old api' with the 'new api' docs and the like).
Cheers, Filip _________________________________________________________________________________ mozart-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.mozart-oz.org/mailman/listinfo/mozart-users
