On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:11:24 -0000, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:58 AM, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote:
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On that note, I went to a talk at Stanford yesterday by one of the
designers of Intel's Nelahem core. The four-core, eight thread
version is out now. The six-core, twelve thread version is working;
the speaker has one in his lab. The eight-core, sixteen thread version
is some months away. This isn't an expensive CPU; this is Intel's
"converged" mainstream product. (Although there will be a whole range
of "economy" and "performance" versions, all with the same core but
with some stuff turned off.)
Python isn't ready for this. Not with the GIL.
Is any language, save perhaps Erlang, really ready for it?
occam :-)
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