Intel: Software needs to heed Moore's Law
Via Dan Creswell Intel: Software needs to heed Moore's Law
I'm often told people simply don't think in the right way to be good at writing concurrent software. I've never been convinced by this, Dan's argument seems more compelling: most developers are not good enough to build good concurrent software.
I'm often told people simply don't think in the right way to be good at writing concurrent software. I've never been convinced by this, Dan's argument seems more compelling: most developers are not good enough to build good concurrent software.
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I don't believe many developers are good at writing good, parallel, procedural code. Because doing so requires an exponentially increasing understanding of how all your procedures interacts, and where (and how) to do synchronization.
I think the solution, simply put, is to stop writing procedural code. Which means looking at reviving the functional languages, which allow for implicit, transparent parallelism. My belief is that these will see in a huge growth in support in the years ahead.
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