On: C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)

[protoman3000]

Thanks for this interesting read.

Say a platform superseded that C platform the article is describing, allowing for an unleash of power and parallelism in computing, what are the implications for Linux and other operating systems?

[qayxc → protoman3000]

I doubt that outside of special cases this would actually provide significant benefits.

Suitable languages already exist (see Erlang), but the fact of the matter is that a vast array of problems don't benefit from parallelism or aren't parallelisable at all. Not to mention that a good chunk of the benefits would be negated by the increase in coordination and synchronisation between parallel tasks.