What support does Fortress provide for parallelism and locality?
Fortress is designed to make parallel programming as painless as possible. Many of the core language constructs in Fortress, including function argument evaluation and for” loops, are parallel by default. Threads can synchronize using atomic code blocks. Fortress supplements this implicit fork-join threading model with explicit futures, and provides programmers with ways to control where particular threads are run and how large objects are laid out in memory.
