Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:49:47 -0400, Nick Sabalausky thusly wrote: > "language_fan" <f...@bar.com.invalid> wrote in message
>> Nowadays when everyone soon has 12-core CPUs in front of them, >> especially x86-64 ones, managing each register and memory module (cache >> or main memory) manually is a major pain in the ass. > > That's just plain arrogant and ignorant. I swear, the next time I see > yet another person pulling out the "That's all they offer in the stores, > therefore that must be only thing that's actually in use, and if anyone > uses less, well then screw them for not being as big of a consumer whore > as I am" bullshit, my head's going to explode. If I go to a store, the cheapest computer I can buy has a dual core cpu - that's just how it is. The $500..600 class computers have quad cores. Even the $100..200 range netbooks soon have (if they don't yet) dual cores. If we assume that most computers just break down in 2-5 years, we will pretty soon have only multi-core computers left. My old Pentium 2 is already quite dead and the motherboard in my Athlon XP 2000+ broke down last year. I've given away all older machines. I really don't expect them to be functional or usable these days. > Plus...what in the world makes you think VMed languages don't get > errors, memory leaks, and race conditions? Segfaults I'll grant you, but > that's hardly any different for the end-user than an unhandled > exception. There are couple of things a VM fixes. Not all of them, but some. Switching to a safer languages helps even more. I don't like C++.
