Slashdot article about multicore

[Walter Bright]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Brian <digitalmars at brianguertin.com> wrote:
>> This sounds like what "pure" functions are going to be for, right?
> That's more or less exactly what they're for.

Only partially. Pure functions are also a valuable tool to aid in 
modularizing code and self-documenting that it is modularized. Pure 
functions have some minor optimization benefits.