Sunday, January 27, 2008

And now for something...

Steve Dekorte on another of my favorite subjects...

If you're looking languages or concurrency tools that will scale to the high core count desktop machines of the near future, I wouldn't put stock in MISD oriented solutions such as transactional memory or fancy functional programming compiler techniques. Shared memory systems simply won't survive the exponential rise in core counts.

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