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> Besides - it isn't necessarily relevant to the problem. In a
> speculative parallelism implementation, the results may well be
> calculated before the need for them arises.

Only if you can successfully *guess* what the argument
(prerequisite/reason) is going to be.

Maybe in a quantum computer all possible results can be calculated for
all possible argument values, but even in this case one has first to
know what "all possible argument values" are going to be.

No logical system can evaluate to false the "cause leads to result"
statement, as it is actually a tautology and is a synonym for true().




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Dimitre Novatchev
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On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Colin Paul Adams
<colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>> "Dimitre" == Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>    Dimitre> Seems like some people didn't understand what I said.  Is
>    Dimitre> it too complicated to understand that "the results
>    Dimitre> happens not earlier than the reason for it" ?
>
> But the examples you gave relied on more than this.
>
> Besides - it isn't necessarily relevant to the problem. In a
> speculative parallelism implementation, the results may well be
> calculated before the need for them arises.
>
> In fact, this is something I intend to explore next year - evaluating
> global variables in parallel prior to any reference to them.
> --
> Colin Adams
> Preston Lancashire

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