@JimmyHoffa the comment re multicores & your earlier comments re multithreading reminded me of this great survey/study talking about a paradigm shift:

the landscape of parallel computing: the view from berkeley

@vzn cool paper, really really light on substance though. Lots of airy thoughts and comparative statements with very little unknown or useful information

?? huh.

56pg. seems substantive.

its sketching out a new trend that will play out over many yrs.

some of it has already materialized directly since the paper was written over ~5yr ago.

hello

I wish this chat was more active