On Mar 30, 2007, at 2:43 PM, Stewart Stremler wrote:
I think we need some more languages with built-in threading support,'cuz the future is looking like multi-core shared-memory systems. We'regoing to be dealing with concurrent programming issues no matter what. We should be exploring that problem space, not avoiding it.
Not just multi-core, but Intel now is following Sun's lead (though I'm left to ask why Intel didn't just lead themselves) in adding Symmetric Multi-Threading (a.k.a. HyperThreading) back into their processor architectures. In a couple years, you won't be able to buy an Intel CPU that's not multi-core and multi-threaded-per-core.
Sun's Niagra CPU packages already have 8 cores with 2-4 threads per core (can't recall the exact numbers), and they're loved by people running large-scale databases (which, I guess, would really mean Oracle).
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