Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 31st Aug 2006 22:53 UTC
"Concurrent programming is difficult, yet many technologists
predict the end of Moore's law will be answered with
increasingly parallel computer architectures - multicore or chip
multiprocessors. If we hope to achieve continued performance
gains, programs must be able to exploit this parallelism.
Automatic exploitation of parallelism in sequential programs,
through either computer architecture techniques such as dynamic
dispatch or automatic parallelization of sequential programs,
offers one possible technical solution. However, many
researchers agree that these automatic techniques have been
pushed to their limits and can exploit only modest parallelism.
Thus, programs themselves must become more concurrent."