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Comment Re:What about Macs? (Score 1) 624

by Conan The Accountant (#20907609) Attached to: Countering the Arguments Against Unbundling Windows
I disagree, at this point the least that anybody has to do is ring Microsoft for the license. Laziness ensures that this will be the case. If you force the purchaser to insert the disc, and if you make the Linux disc "Live", enabling them to try the OS before installation, then there is a much stronger chance for the adoption of another operating system.
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Intel Updates Compilers For Multicore CPUs 208

Posted by kdawson from the what-about-gcc dept.
Threaded writes with news from Ars that Intel has announced major updates to its C++ and Fortran tools. The new compilers are Intel's first that are capable of doing thread-level optimization and auto-vectorization simultaneously in a single pass. "On the data parallelism side, the Intel C++ Compiler and Fortran Professional Editions both sport improved auto-vectorization features that can target Intel's new SSE4 extensions. For thread-level parallelism, the compilers support the use of Intel's Thread Building Blocks for automatic thread-level optimization that takes place simultaneously with auto-vectorization... Intel is encouraging the widespread use of its Intel Threading Tools as an interface to its multicore processors. As the company raises the core count with each generation of new products, it will get harder and harder for programmers to manage the complexity associated with all of that available parallelism. So the Thread Building Blocks are Intel's attempt to insert a stable layer of abstraction between the programmer and the processor so that code scales less painfully with the number of cores."

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