Slashdot article about multicore

[Brian]

"Windows and Linux Not Well Prepared For Multicore Chips"
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/22/193205&from=rss

I wouldn't completely agree that operating systems aren't ready for such 
things.

One of the comments reads: "This is the kind of the the compiler could do 
just fine ... by isolating parts of the code in which there are no 
dependencies in the data-flow, and which could therefore run in 
parallel..."

This sounds like what "pure" functions are going to be for, right?