* Sonoman:
http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm
Herb does a good job of convinving the socially bound technicians
(non-engineers, non-scientists, non-thinkers) of a self-evident
historical fact. Namely that we'll increasingly be doing parallel and
distributed processing, both hardware and software. The presentation is
very well matched to what I presume is the intended audience.
Minus: the graph of CPU-speeds presented seems to be exaggerated (at
least visually the drawn graph doesn't seem to be anywhere near a best
fit to the data) -- to make a point that is in all likehood true.
With respect to C++ the now 60 years of historical precedent of ever
more parallelism doesn't mean very much, just, AFAICS, (1) that it's
over time to get some standardized threading support as other languages
have enjoyed the last few decades, and (2) that C++ and other
conventional thread-viewpoint languages will in all likelyhood continue
their migration toward pure support roles. I wish Herb would write an
article about those aspects. That kind of thing is what he excels at.
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