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A comment on The False Hope Of Apple's Snow Leopard.

Re:The False Hope Of Apple's Snow Leopard by hunterjrj on Thursday June 19, 2008 @03:21PM (#222064)
Alot of words, not alot of content. I'll sum up the article for all that haven't read it: "Though I haven't seen what Apple will be offering with Grand Central, I am making an assertion that the fundamental problems found in multi-core computing can't be solved by anybody. Ever."

Does this remind anyone else of a certain Bill Gates quote regarding 640k being enough for anyone?

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Re:The False Hope Of Apple's Snow Leopard by wmf on Thursday June 19, 2008 @07:52PM (#222286)
No, it doesn't. There are fundamental laws governing parallelization of code, and Apple can't beat them:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=222279

And that's not even getting into the speed of light.

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Re:The False Hope Of Apple's Snow Leopard by evgen on Thursday June 19, 2008 @04:44PM (#222131)
Perhaps a more accurate assertion would be this: companies like Intel and AMD have a lot more smart people working on this problem, and can actually tweak the hardware to assist in their search for a solution and yet they still have not managed to crack this nut -- anyone who believes that an OS vendor will be offering more than a simplistic solution to this problem is quite delusional.
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