On 8/21/07, Andrew Coppin
I highly doubt that automatic threading will happen any time this decade - but I just learned something worth while from reading this email. ;-)
That's an interesting observation. I cant say I dont believe it, but I'm interested to know why (but it could be just a feeling, or an observation in time-to-market lead times?). Are you saying this because multicores arent sufficiently widespread or powerful enough yet (4-cores doesnt really even make up for the overhead of using automatic threading, at least in initial implementations)? or are you saying this because you think the technical implementations are not sufficiently advanced? I kindof think automatic threading is like 3d graphics: as soon as the hardware became sufficiently powerful, 3d graphics became trivial. Enough money was thrown at the problem in a very short time by a few powerful companies that it was a non-issue. Nevertheless, if I could get a paper out of it before the big companies notice, that could be fun :-D