Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust - New York Times. on the problems of programming on multi-core processors and the people microsoft hired to work on the problem.
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i remember linda’s in the summer of 2005 when quad-core processors were just a sparkle in aaron’s eye…
Interesting… looks like we’re moving from figuring out how to parallelize tasks to seeing how many different tasks we can think of. Now the question is… will I forgive Outlook for taking 20 minutes to load if it boots up with pre-generated responses to all my mail? Oh, and if once this comes AntiVirus software still can’t manage to not freeze my desktop once a day, I’m going to be pissed. Finally… I wonder how many of these cores are going to be dedicated to DRM…