Welcome to the Jungle (article about the future of parallel computing)

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Paulo Pinto" <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote in message 
news:je7vvh$253f$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Hi,
>
> I just saw a follow up article from Herb Sutter about
> the future of parallel computing.
>
> http://herbsutter.com/welcome-to-the-jungle/
>
> Very interesting read. Excuse me if someone has already
> posted it.
>

It is interesting...But I have to say: The *one* thing that really bugs me 
about it is that it seems to be written under the assumption that the 
highest-end hardware that's *sitting around on store shelves* is the only 
hardware that's relevant, or even exists. It makes the whole thing feel 
uncomfortably ivory-tower when reading through it. Even a simple 
*acknowledgment* of the distinction would have made a huge difference. But 
the way it's written, it makes him sound like (and for all I know, he may 
very well not be like this at all), but it makes him sound like "CliffyB", 
or Tim Sweeny, or some other such graphics-whore, "in bed with MS, NVidia 
and ATI" jackass over at Epic (Epic used to actually be respectable back in 
the "MegaGames" days...).