Star Intel: 'We Can Transform Single Thread to Multithread'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Apr 2008 15:52 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
Intel Intel today revealed it can convert single threaded software to multithreaded mode without any code modification. The new 'speculative parallel threading' process monitors software and examines whether its processes can be run in parallel. If they can execute succesfully, the software can be recompiled to run as a multithreaded app. Intel says it has realised that programmers are going to need machine help to get software running as multithreaded. "We can't blame the programmers," an Intel spokesman said. "The industry has been complaining for 30 years about how difficult parallel programming is."
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RE: It's true but...
by Almafeta on Wed 2nd Apr 2008 01:33 UTC in reply to "It's true but..."
Almafeta
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2007-02-22

It's true. There is at least one startup in Massachussets that has been trying the same approach. The problem is, it's just not very effective.


For now, it's not very effective.

10 to 20 years down the road, compilers producing multithreaded apps out of singlethread code might just be another type of optimization.

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RE[2]: It's true but...
by Morph on Wed 2nd Apr 2008 14:54 in reply to "RE: It's true but..."
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2007-08-20

10 to 20 years down the road, programmers producing singlethreaded code might just be another type of anachronism ;)

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