That is a pretty amazing point - I am betting most people will ignore that. Whilst current CPU trends are to "wider" architectures - how much of that is lack o

That is a pretty amazing point - I am betting most people will ignore that. Whilst current CPU trends are to "wider" architectures - how much of that is lack of innovation in the CPU design area rather then some major actual shift - ie will we see new CPU innovation in the near future where explicit parallelism is less of an issue? Having said that, parallel friendly functional languages like erlang and haskell have so many other advantages, maybe its worth shifting in that direction anyway.