On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Brian <digitalm...@brianguertin.com> wrote: > "Windows and Linux Not Well Prepared For Multicore Chips" > http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/22/193205&from=rss > > I wouldn't completely agree that operating systems aren't ready for such > things. > > One of the comments reads: "This is the kind of the the compiler could do > just fine ... by isolating parts of the code in which there are no > dependencies in the data-flow, and which could therefore run in > parallel..." > > This sounds like what "pure" functions are going to be for, right?
That's more or less exactly what they're for.
