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Re:Hadi Esmaeilzadeh on Dark Silicon by yngccc on Friday October 25, 2013 @10:43PM (#6616034)
"Under more conservative (realistic) assumptions, multicore scaling provides a total performance gain of 3.7× (14% per year) over ten years."

so in 10 years haskell maybe as fast a C/C++ program without parallelism, not exactly my definition of future proof.

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Re:Hadi Esmaeilzadeh on Dark Silicon by ehsanu1 on Saturday October 26, 2013 @12:39AM (#6616370)
But what if single core performance increases stop completely? In that case, parallelism wins out in the end as you keep adding more and more cores, given a problem amenable to parallelism.
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