Re:Two Weeks of Rust
by dikaiosune on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @11:16AM
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For what it's worth I actually think that Rust (and a smattering of other languages and tools) could push us to revisit the "hundreds of cores" thing again if these parallel-first/friendly tools get popular enough that CPU vendors see a market of highly parallel consumer-grade applications.
That was the dream of the mid-2000s. But now hundreds of cores are never going to happen. The CPU vendors have decided that the industry has run out of time to parallelize their programs and are now refusing to scale up. Our hope for speedups now lies in using SIMD and GPUs effectively ("heterogeneous computing").