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Did you read this quote near the end? "Shared-memory multiprocessors have never really 'taken off', at least in the general public." The assumptions that held
by danieldk 16y ago
Did you read this quote near the end?
"Shared-memory multiprocessors have never really 'taken off', at least in the general public."
The assumptions that held in 2002 seem to be gone these days. There are many 8-16 CPU users these days, especially in OCaml's main public (academia).
- cageface 16y agoTrue. In that respect the situation has changed quite a bit and you might imagine that the potential gains might be significantly higher. The extra complexity still sounds pretty daunting though. You're going to make development of Python core for the common case (single-threaded) a lot harder for the benefit of the exceptional case. I think it's fair to say that most of the people that really need full-bore SMP performance are going to want a faster, lower-level language than Python to do their heavy lifting in anyway. Game developers are probably ahead of most of the rest of us in this area.