The coming multi-core crunch?

07/23/2007

According to this article in the Arizona Daily Star, the new generation of multi-core CPU's poses a daunting challenge.

Experts, quoted in the article, predict dire consequences if software for more complicated applications doesn't arrive soon. One even saw the need for some Manhattan Project style efforts to help solve this pressing problem.

Well, for the here and now there's always Erlang. It was designed from the ground up to address exactly this sort of problem, and it handles concurrency naturally and effectively.

Sounds like a good start to me; no bunker required.