Re: "A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software"

From: Paul Rubin (//phr.cx_at_NOSPAM.invalid)
Date: 01/07/05 

Date: 07 Jan 2005 13:48:41 -0800

aurora <aurora00@gmail.com> writes:
> Just gone though an article via Slashdot titled "The Free Lunch Is
> Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software"
> [http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm]. It argues that
> the continous CPU performance gain we've seen is finally over. And
> that future gain would primary be in the area of software concurrency
> taking advantage hyperthreading and multicore architectures.

Well, another gain could be had in making the software less wasteful
of cpu cycles.

I'm a pretty experienced programmer by most people's standards but I
see a lot of systems where I can't for the life of me figure out how
they manage to be so slow. It might be caused by environmental
pollutants emanating from Redmond.