Silicon reached it's speed limit more than a decade ago, and multi-core processors are limited by the overhead of managing tasks -- at some point the time needed to distribute and collect the processing threads is more than running them consecutively.
I have also come to the conclusion that most IT people know little or nothing about computing, it's all software applications. I'm currently dealing with IT people who persistently confuse a database with a spreadsheet and insist on trying to manage data with Excel. Drives me crazy. I don't know what the teach in computer courses these days, but it's not what it needs to be in most cases. I have a buddy who went to a local private college, and had to write an OS for a simple computer, but he was an engineering student, not a computer science student! All his programming classes were about how to use high level languages, not anything nuts and bolts. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
