SW Weenies: Ready for CMT?

tbray writes "The hardware guys are getting ready to toss this big hairy package over the wall: CMT (Chip Multi Threading) and TLP (Thread Level Parallelism). Think about a chip that isn't that fast but runs 32 threads in hardware. This year, more threads next year. How do you make your code run fast? Anyhow, I was just at a high-level Sun meeting about this stuff, and we don't know the answers, but I pulled together some of the questions."

Comments

How is this different from having multiple cores?

[MichaelSmith]

...and isn't this the challenge being addressed by DragonFly BSD?

Software people use threads already, as long as the VM and OS are up to the task. I don't see why it should matter if some of the threads are implemented in hardware.

Re:Windows Articles, Slashdot and Pragmatism

[Rwilson500]

I agree with you on using the best tool for the job, but what does this have to do with the actual article?

let's go verb hunting!

[illtron]

This year, more threads next year.

Hmm, I can't seem to find one. For arguably one of the tech-savviest sites on all of the Internet, Slashdot contributors have surprisingly awful grammar.

We hear a lot about the lack of technical education and preparation for engineering and science careers these days, but sometimes it looks like English instruction is just as bad.

I'm not looking for perfection, and sometimes, like in comments, speed matters more than grammatical accuracy, but when you're submitting a story, it really can't hurt to read it over to make sure it fits elementary school standards.

P.S., there is no such word as "virii." There, now this is officially off-topic.

Re:let's go verb hunting!

[rylin]

FIRST POST!