[extropy-chat] ECON: Chip market responds to high oil prices...

[Rik van Riel]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Gary Miller wrote:

> Too bad that 95% of the software on the home market is not multithreaded 
> and can't benefit greatly from dual core technology.

The software can benefit from the increased number of functional
units, though.  With just a little compiler help (trying to touch
different registers in adjacant instructions) the instruction
scheduler can be effective.

Of course, that makes it kind of necessary to use the 64 bit
features of the CPU, since 32 bit mode is register starved.

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan