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Programming languages shouldn't be concerned about multi-cores IMHO. That should be some magic sauce that goes on without anyone knowing/caring. (Also, 5 years
by axod 17y ago
Programming languages shouldn't be concerned about multi-cores IMHO. That should be some magic sauce that goes on without anyone knowing/caring. (Also, 5 years ago people were hyping it up saying we'll all have 20 CPUs. Most still have 2 at most. The need for CPU power on desktops is going down).
Would Charles Dickens stories been any less had he written them in French rather than English? :/
- protomyth 17y agoWell, all programming is not done on a client and poorly using the many CPUs of a server is not cost effective. I think we are a long way off from the "magic sauce" and languages designed to allow programmers to express their programs in a parallel manner are going to have an advantage. "Would Charles Dickens stories been any less had he written them in French rather than English? :/" - yep, they would have been - a particular turn of phrase or expression doesn't always translate well. Different languages bring different world views.
- nailer 17y agoshrug we have 32 cores, sometimes 64 here, and we're not doing anything amazing or buying anothing but off the shelf hardware (8 cores by 8 dies).