Scientific computing and parallel computing C++23/C++26

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On Thursday, 13 January 2022 at 00:41:25 UTC, forkit wrote:
>
> parallelism has been promoted as the new thing..for a 
> very..very...long time now.
>
> I've had 8 cores available on my pc for well over 10 years now. 
> I don't think anything running on my pc has the slighest clue 
> that they even exist ;-)  (except the o/s).
>
> I expect 'explicitly' coding parallelism will continue to be 
> relegated to a niche subset of programmers/developers, due to 
> the very considerable knowledge/skillset needed, to 
> design/develop/test/debug parallel code.

Yes, that parallelism is for many applications a dead end as you 
need something that can take advantage of it. Often forcing 
parallel execution can often instead reduce performance.

In order to exploit parallelism you need to understand your 
program and how it can take advantage of it. Languages that tries 
to make things in parallel under the hood without the programmer 
knowledge has been a fantasy for decades and it still is.

I'm not saying that the additions in C++ aren't useful, people 
will probably find good use for it. The presentation just reminds 
me how C++ just gets more ugly for every iteration and I'm happy 
I jumped off that horror train.