[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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