The Free Lunch Is Over (computing)
- The Free Lunch Is Over (computing)
"The Free Lunch Is Over" is an article[Sutter, H. 2005. "The free lunch is over: A fundamental turn toward concurrency in software," Dr. Dobb's Journal, 30(3), http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm.] from Herb Sutter stating that microprocessor serial processing speed is reaching a physical limit, which leads to two main consequences:1) processor manufactures will focus on products that better support multithreading (such as multi-core processors), and 2) software developers will be forced to develop massively multithreaded programs as a way to better use such processors. ]Despite these facts, information systems are still being developed in a more serial fashion. For a discussion of why this is still the case, a counter point of view[Wilcox, J. 2008. "Multiprocessing: How 'bout that free lunch?", http://politechnosis.kataire.com/2008/04/multiprocessing-how-bout-that-free.html] was published. ]References
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