[antlr-interest] multi-core usage and pipeline processing
Randall R Schulz
rschulz at sonic.net
Fri Jun 13 14:48:33 PDT 2008
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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