Re: Multiprocessor Core

emu8086@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
I propose up to a hundred or even more separate microprocessor cores,
that would be controlled by central microprocessor... That may allow
running much more than a 4 separate threads without loosing the
productivity.

What may the leading assembly programmers share on the subject? 

I dunno.

Any thoughts?

But if I may answer anyway... My thought on it is that this is going to ask a lot of programmers - especially compiler-writers. Making efficient use of such a setup would take some slick programming, I would think. With some exceptions, I don't see that the software we've got does an especially good job of managing the hardware we've got. I fear that this could make the situation worse. Much of the hardware is likely to be sitting idle much of the time, simply due to a lack of anything useful to do. When a "peak load" (of unknown size and duration?) comes along, parcelling out the labor in an optimal manner seems like a programming nightmare to me.

That's just based on a "feeling", not on any factual knowledge of how such a beast would be programmed.

Best,
Frank
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