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peterchen wrote:
My motivation for asking: I think parellel execution will be Moores Law of the next decade(s). Chip density hits physical limits, and while alternative approaches are "in the thinking", they'll take many years to ripen and some more to become a mass produced commodity. In the meantime, multiple CPUs (virtual or real) is all we will get.


I read in more detail your explanation, and I agree. One reason I have pushed for more thought in threaded processes even in my own code.

I don't think the alternative approaches are years away. They are all in front of us in plain site, just often overlooked. As in any process we often take the "easy route". I am rather infamous for asking people to remove mutexes from their code and redesign it. So infamous I was recently told that I "hate" mutexes. hmmmm I guess partially true. Mutexes are a crutch, an easy road of blocking a threading-problem to prevent it from causing cascading failure. It is a necessary evil when dealing with 3rd party code, but if you write an algorithm that is not thread-safe in our shop and say, "don't worry, I'll put a mutex to fix it" you will be asked to rewrite it without using a mutex.

The algorithms exist and have for quite some time. The designs only require a bit of forethought. Parallel thinking doesn't always come easy, but it is worth the time and effort.

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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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