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They (Intel and AMD) keep saying that. If there's an elite few, it's because there are damn few jobs that require that as a primary skill. Other skills are mo
by jseigh 19y ago
They (Intel and AMD) keep saying that. If there's an elite few, it's because there are damn few jobs that require that as a primary skill. Other skills are more important as primary skills and if you have those you don't need threading skills. You'd be better off investing in those other skills.
- vikas5678 19y agoThis is probably true,but if you are a server side programmer, then its useful to keep in mind that programming for multiple processors will be a necessary skill to know in the future and learn whatever little's possible.
- jseigh 19y agoThat future remains elusively out of reach. I've been doing multi-threaded programming for over two decades and lock-free algorithms nearly as long and it's just as marginal now as it was then.