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Not open-sourcing the project is a huge miss. Being able to program against multiple cores/processors/machines is one of the biggest "unsolved" problems facing

by bprater 18y ago

Not open-sourcing the project is a huge miss. Being able to program against multiple cores/processors/machines is one of the biggest "unsolved" problems facing us right now. Intel could make itself a real brand boost by embracing external developers, especially if you plan on hacking C/C++.

illicium 18y ago
Being able to program against multiple cores/processors/machines is one of the biggest "unsolved" problems facing us right now. It's not much of a problem if you use correctly use multithreading. See also: Erlang
- PieSquared 18y ago
  "if you use correctly use multithreading" Good luck doing that 100% of the time! As for Erlang, I'm pretty sure it wasn't meant for numerical calculations, and since it's interpreter, it can't really be used for all real-time apps. Although it's process model is novel, the implementation might not be perfect for everything right now. Correct me if I'm wrong on this (which I might well be, since I have not spent too much time writing Erlang code.) I think what the parent meant is that writing multithreaded programs easily and quickly (not to mention bug-free) is hard, hard enough to be called a problem.