Re: [9fans] current state of thread programming

[Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>]

On Jul 28, 2008, at 1:11 PM, andrey mirtchovski wrote:
> salad fork. Locks, mutexes, the synchronized keyword; all of these
> things can strike fear into the heart of a green developer. Most

That's what you get for using Java.

On Jul 28, 2008, at 1:50 PM, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote:
> I'm unable to judge what ideas about
> 	parallelism are likely to be useful five or ten years from now, let
> 	alone fifty,

By that time, $50 (not $500 or $5,000, but $50) computers will be
around that will have processors with as many cores as Blue Gene, thus
almost completely eliminating the problems of multithreaded
programming. Data synchronization will be solved by simply turning off
one of the processors until the critical code has completed.

If only I could tell him that without having to wait for the snail!