(j3.2006) Lock variables

[Bill Long]

Van Snyder wrote:
>
>  For now,
> it would just be a silly program that locks a noncoarray lock -- until
> we implement task parallelism, at which time it will make sense.
> Fortran 2008 isn't out the door yet, and the lack of task parallelism is
> already being criticized.
>   

Implementing task parallelism (i.e. within image threading) would be an 
enormous new feature, and clearly out of bounds for Fortran 2008 at this 
point. 

Cheers,
Bill




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