begin quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 07:07:14PM -0700: > 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're > >going 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.
I wonder if this is a factor in introducing threads into the TCL core? If they can show a major speedup by changing to a new CPU, it'll do a lot for TCL among the performance-minded crowd. > 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 At SCALE, they said 4 threads per core. > running large-scale databases (which, I guess, would really mean > Oracle). Heh. I wish they'd make a Blade 100-class machine (cheap-as-in-beer) with a Niagra CPU. -- Can we bring back the pizza box form factor please? Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
