On 30 Jul 2008, at 16:35, Boian Mitov wrote:
The future is not likely to be in faster systems, but in more cores. This seems to be the consensus lately among the processor architects.
It's the consensus between the marketing departments of various processor manufacturers, because that's what they're delivering now and in the short term future. As shown by Amdahl's law, just adding more and more cores stops getting you significant performance gains fairly soon (even if 95% of your code is perfectly parallelisable).
See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law Jonas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
