In general, I share Reiner's doubts. Let now me throw a provocation.
Ok, it seems that most of us agree that multicores aren't an issue for servers, where you can keep non-parallized threads and scale a thread-per user.
So, the problem is with desktop applications. Now, there are traditional applications, where you might have the problem (might, because if we look at some classes of desktop applications, such as media processing - Photoshop, Final Cut, Lightroom, Aperture - I think that you can deal with medium-grain parallelization given the nature of photos, sounds, movies.
But, they say, there's no future in traditional desktop applications (I disagree, but I'm conceding this for this round). Everything will be web based. Which means HTML 5, which means JavaScript. So, what's the status of fine-grain parallelization in JavaScript? I'd like to see some JavaScript code that scales on, say, 4-8 cores.
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