Monday, July 23, 2007

Parallelism

Our speaker puts his hope in extending languages we use today, in addition to playing with new languages, in order to solve challenges involved in coding for multiple cores.

C++ can be extended with templates to program familiar tasks (not threads). Maybe this will help with higher languages written in C++?

Multicore programming will increasingly become a fact of life, as simply cranking up the clock on the one CPU isn't helping as much any more.