Thursday January 13, 2005 Matt Ingenthron's Stream of Consciousness
Thursday January 13, 2005 Dave Edstrom, another Sun guy, sent me a link to this article. This is something I've felt to be true for quite some time. Sun and others have done things like -Xautopar for compilers, but to really be able to make use of threading, you need to have good language support and a programming model that makes it easy.
Realistically, this is the quiet story that Java/J2EE have done well. It only gets better with things like JSR-166. If you've written a servlet, some session beans and some entity beans in recent years, you've written something capable of being highly multithreaded. Putting it on one of these will most likely make it run very, very quickly.
If you're not coding with a language that has kick-butt threading support, it's time to start considering it....
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