Microsoft's top developers prefer old-school coding methods

2009-11-30 Thread Justin Johansson
FYI D people. Snippet: Other programming gurus, such as Herb Sutter, lead designer of Microsoft's C++/CLI programming language, predict that writing code to run on bare metal may come back into fashion, as chip makers find themselves unable to keep boosting processor speeds at current rates.

Re: Microsoft's top developers prefer old-school coding methods

2009-11-30 Thread bearophile
Justin Johansson: > "I think we have maybe five to 10 years left [with Moore's Law]," he > said. "Optimizations will get very, very sexy again, when people realize > how we pay for abstractions." We'll see, but I don't believe that. We'll see. CPUs with 30 cores require a different kind of opti

Re: Microsoft's top developers prefer old-school coding methods

2009-11-30 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"bearophile" wrote in message news:hf0976$v2...@digitalmars.com... > Justin Johansson: >> "I think we have maybe five to 10 years left [with Moore's Law]," he >> said. "Optimizations will get very, very sexy again, when people realize >> how we pay for abstractions." > > We'll see, but I don't be