[antlr-interest] multi-core usage and pipeline processing

[Randall R Schulz]

On Friday 13 June 2008 14:33, Ian Kaplan wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Loring Craymer wrote:
> > ...
>
>  I also thought that disk I/O would be the limiting factor. ...
>
>   Again, I think this is sort of a moot issue since in general, with
> parallel make, compiles are fast enough for most people. ...


And just to make sure software designer's lives don't get a chance to 
become boring, we're at the beginning of the introduction  of 
solid-state mass storage with the speed and capacity comparable to that 
of rotating magnetic media but without the seek and rotational 
latencies. Right now these devices are prohibitively expensive for most 
purposes, but undoubtedly that will change, and when it does, many of 
the assumptions on which we built elaborate schemes for avoiding (or 
overlapping) disk I/O will become unwelcome encumbrances.

So it goes...


>   Ian


Randall Schulz