Subj : Re: Lock Free -- where to start
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Fri Sep 30 2005 03:25 pm


"Joe Seigh" <jseigh_01@xemaps.com> wrote in message 
news:3uudnX6_Yr6nPaDeRVn-pg@comcast.com...

> Well, until 2010 anyway.  That's when Intel claims 100 core processors
> will be commonly available.   Individual cores probably won't be much
> faster than they are now.  If you want better performance than you have
> now, you'll have to figure out how to do it with more threads.  If you
> know how to do that and keep synchronization low enough so the exponential
> contention doesn't become a problem then good.   Otherwise too bad I
> guess.

    I don't think anybody does yet. A lot will depend on what the memory 
access characteristics of those processors turns out to be.

    DS

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