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

Loring Craymer lgcraymer at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 13 15:17:33 PDT 2008


Randall--

Phase change memory is also going to have us living in glass houses, and brings new life to the idea of "fragile" code ...

--Loring

----- Original Message ----
> From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz at sonic.net>
> To: antlr-interest at antlr.org
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 2:48:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] multi-core usage and pipeline processing
> 
> 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



      



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