Software development at crossroads?
As has been noted before, software programmers have not yet adjusted to the multi-core processor. Writing code that uses many simultaneous processes is not at all like traditional coding. Ars Technica reports on the challenge that faces programmers:
Intel has bad news for software developers. It’s been hinted at already, but now the company has stated explicitly: it’s not enough for software developers to be targeting dual, quad, or eight cores. No, the future holds tens, hundreds, or thousands of cores, and developers are going to have to bite the bullet and write programs that will scale to such systems.
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