Am 07.01.2012 08:08, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
"Paulo Pinto"<[email protected]> wrote in message
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Hi,
I just saw a follow up article from Herb Sutter about
the future of parallel computing.
http://herbsutter.com/welcome-to-the-jungle/
Very interesting read. Excuse me if someone has already
posted it.
It is interesting...But I have to say: The *one* thing that really bugs me
about it is that it seems to be written under the assumption that the
highest-end hardware that's *sitting around on store shelves* is the only
hardware that's relevant, or even exists. It makes the whole thing feel
uncomfortably ivory-tower when reading through it. Even a simple
*acknowledgment* of the distinction would have made a huge difference. But
the way it's written, it makes him sound like (and for all I know, he may
very well not be like this at all), but it makes him sound like "CliffyB",
or Tim Sweeny, or some other such graphics-whore, "in bed with MS, NVidia
and ATI" jackass over at Epic (Epic used to actually be respectable back in
the "MegaGames" days...).
But he is in a way right.
Even the small embedded systems are slowly becoming multicore. The most
recent ARM processors are now multicore.
As an example of a multicore PIC, see the Parallax Propeller processor,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_Propeller.
Sure there will still be lots of scenarios where this won't be the case,
like there are still 8 bit PIC processors being deployed in Assembly,
but they are niche products. The vast majority of the developers will
have the reality he describes.
--
Paulo
