On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 at 11:43:05 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 at 10:20:57 UTC, Laeeth Isharc
wrote:
http://www.nature.com/news/the-chips-are-down-for-moore-s-law-1.19338
Good news for D and other AoT-compiled languages, as software
will have to take up the slack. Software has been able to get
Just because improvements on density is slowing down does not
mean that hardware won't change.
D may need to be focus more on SIMD and GPU/coprocessor
processing to keep up.
What good is there in running fast non-SIMD cpu code if "slower"
high level languages autogenerate SIMD/GPU code on the fly using
JIT compilation?