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While welcoming this, it's amazing this kind of thing is news. That so many communities failed to acknowledge the inevitable rise of SMP systems still amazes me
by fidotron 12y ago
While welcoming this, it's amazing this kind of thing is news. That so many communities failed to acknowledge the inevitable rise of SMP systems still amazes me. This blind spot basically killed OCaml, which has fantastic single thread performance, and it remains a serious problem for things like Python.
The same thing is now happening with the rise of GPGPUs.
- pjmlp 12y agoThere are many more ways to concurrency and parallelism than threads.
- 4ad 12y ago> That so many communities failed to acknowledge the inevitable rise of SMP systems still amazes me. What? NetBSD most certainly didn't fail to acknowledge the inevitable rise of SMP systems. These boards lacked SMP support because SMP support is a lot of work, every chip is different (unlike x64), very few people know how to work on this, there are very few people working on the NetBSD kernel, and most chips don't have open documentation. You make it sound like these people were like "SMP... shit, who needs this?".