Roman Shaposhnik's

With every single IT publication now explaining the difficulty of parallelism and multithreaded programming, one has to wonder why do we have to go to all this trouble of managing multicore in software. Isn't it all just a manifestation of a desperate hardware industry trying to ram surplus of transistors down developer's throats much the same way industrial agriculture rams the surplus of crops? Are multicore chips going to be as much a damage to your brain as soft drinks (AKA liquid corn) are a damage to your stomach? And finally, is there a better way? In other words, what is the ethanol revolution of the hardware industry?[Read More]