Slashdot article about multicore

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Brian <digitalmars at brianguertin.com> wrote:
> "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?

That's more or less exactly what they're for.