I'll believe that (thousands of cores) when I see it. A single core won't get slower, and as a practical matter performance is rarely an issue these days, and as I said, where it is, there's usually something emininently parallelizable "in the large" somewhere, which solves the problem in one fell swoop and could easily occupy every single one of a thousands of cores machine if it came to that.
I'm just struck by the cognitive dissonance between espousing the idea of writing your code / preparing it for being parallellized in the small, whilst at the same time abhorring (correctly, in my experience) non-algorithmic optimizing as essentially irrelevant in the vast majority of cases. Both are talking about roughly similar orders of magnitude. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
