Donald Knuth - Open Source and Multicore
Posted on Sunday, June 15, 2008 at 11:51 AM by Malcolm
Donald Knuth: "... I might as well flame a bit about my personal unhappiness with the current trend toward multicore architecture. To me, it looks more or less like the hardware designers have run out of ideas, and that they're trying to pass the blame for the future demise of Moore's Law to the software writers by giving us machines that work faster only on a few key benchmarks! I won't be surprised at all if the whole multithreading idea turns out to be a flop, worse than the "Itanium" approach that was supposed to be so it turned out that the wished-for compilers were basically impossible to write."Edited on: Friday, July 18, 2008 1:59 PM
