Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Oct 2005 11:17 UTC
Herb Sutter, a software architect from Microsoft, gave a speech yesterday at In-Stat/MDR's Fall Processor Forum. Addressing a crowd mostly consisting of hardware engineers, he talked about how the software world was ill-prepared to make use of the new multicore CPUs coming from Intel and AMD.
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>>perhaps of they switched to a Linux microKernel<<
Linux isn't a microkernel.
Now for SMP support Windows and the software for years have been behind the curve. Now OS X on intel multi-cores will rock. As Mac workstations normally have multiple processors. The software is already coded for it.
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As much as I love making fun of MSFT.
This is an outright lie.
>>perhaps of they switched to a Linux microKernel<<
Linux isn't a microkernel.
Now for SMP support Windows and the software for years have been behind the curve. Now OS X on intel multi-cores will rock. As Mac workstations normally have multiple processors. The software is already coded for it.