The Multicore Kerfuffle and a Dose of Reality

[iamelgringo]

http://marknelson.us/2007/07/30/multicore-panic/

[eli]

"Venerable analyst John Dvorak, who generally actually understands what he is writing about..."

cough sputter Are you kidding me? Dvorak?

This is the guy who once wrote an article bitching about how the "Idle Process" was sucking up all his CPU cycles in XP. This is the guy who admitted on tape that he trolls for links from Apple fans by writing slanted anti-Apple articles.

[jey]

erlang! erlang! erlang!

OK, it's no panacea, but it sure makes things a hell of a lot nicer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_%28programming_language%...

http://erlang.org/doc.html

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Erlang-Software-Concurrent...

[adamsmith]

Great post!