Από: You’ve Already Had a Multicore Crisis and Just Didn’t Realize It! « SmoothSpan Blog

[...] Here is my problem with all this back and forth:  we’ve already hit the Multicore Brick Wall without leaving skid marks and most people just don’t realize it!  I hear the crowd out there now, beyond the klieg lights, grumbling in the dark, ”What’s he on about now?”  Patience please.  The problem with multicore is it teaches us that someday we will expect software to scale linearly.  That Alpha Geek Speak means if I double the number of available cores, I want my software to run twice as fast.  Hallelujah!  I’m back to getting twice the speed every 18-24 months just like in the heyday of Moore’s Law.  In the post-clockspeed-doubling world that’s coming, this will be a requirement or all computing progress grinds to a halt (that means the money stops: true crisis), or so say the Multicored Chicken Littles. [...]