Of course, all this SMP support stuff slows down the runtime system even if there is only one processor, which is the case for almost all our users...
What about hyperthreading? Well, I believe it's the last convulsive movement of SMP's corpse :-)
Oh how things have changed. This was written before it was clear just how much of a disaster the P4 was, so it was a pretty reasonable position at the time.
He was hardly the only one thinking that way - I remember Gabe Newell being scathing about multicore/multiprocessing when the PS3 and Xbox 360 were released. All a fad, waste of time.
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Oh how things have changed. This was written before it was clear just how much of a disaster the P4 was, so it was a pretty reasonable position at the time.
He was hardly the only one thinking that way - I remember Gabe Newell being scathing about multicore/multiprocessing when the PS3 and Xbox 360 were released. All a fad, waste of time.