aulou05 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I am impressed (Score 1) 173

by aulou05 on Thursday June 18, 2009 @09:57AM (#28373323) Attached to: EU Fusion Experiment's Financial Woes Get More Concrete

I mean the internet is a very good example of what you just described. I daresay nothing came of it while govt. controlled it. Only when private sector got involved did things get interesting.

You're right. That's when we got um...err...Internet Explorer! And, uhh...Flash!

Hey wait a second! Get off my lawn!! ;)

Submission + - Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust (nytimes.com)

Submitted by mlimber on Monday December 17, 2007 @11:50AM

mlimber writes: The New York Times is running a story about multicore computing and the efforts of Microsoft et al. to try to switch to the new paradigm: "The challenges [of parallel programming] have not dented the enthusiasm for the potential of the new parallel chips at Microsoft, where executives are betting that the arrival of manycore chips — processors with more than eight cores, possible as soon as 2010 — will transform the world of personal computing.... Engineers and computer scientists acknowledge that despite advances in recent decades, the computer industry is still lagging in its ability to write parallel programs."

It mirrors what C++ guru and now Microsoft architect Herb Sutter has been saying in articles such as his "The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software." Sutter is part of the C++ standards committee that is working hard to make multithreading standard in C++.

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