It&#39;s fun to look back and see what people thought was going to be the programming model we&#39;re being faced with though.  Things seem more NUMA than ever, or at least heading that way, even on the desktop.  <br><div>
<br></div><div>Intel&#39;s 48 core demo CPU doodad has a mesh network behind the scenes for reasons of scalability rather than a huge shared cache blob.</div><div><br></div><div>Also shared state is the devil in the details (some might say its just the invariants really) of highly concurrent applications.</div>
<div><br></div><div>One actually has to wonder if the desktop/workstation is on its last legs now.  Grandma doesn&#39;t want a computer, she wants an iPad with a camera!</div><div><br></div><div>Dave</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:57 AM, andrey mirtchovski <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mirtchovski@gmail.com">mirtchovski@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Linus in 2004 is not the same one from 1995. not to say anything about<br>
the man, but humility is generally inversely proportional to success.<br>
you can say the same thing about Plan 9&#39;s designers and you&#39;d be more<br>
or less on the point. butting egos aside, linus has won and we&#39;re just<br>
sulking :)<br>
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