{"id":223,"date":"2008-05-08T12:05:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T18:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2008-05-08T12:05:34","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T18:05:34","slug":"too-many-cores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/223","title":{"rendered":"Too many cores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm&#8230; I think I pretty much have to agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informit.com\/articles\/article.aspx?p=1193856\">Donald Knuth<\/a> on this one: multicore processors are basically not that great of an idea for general-purpose computing.<\/p>\n<p>Problem is, this looks like one of those wrong turns that will lead us quite far afield before we get back to the highway. There&#8217;s a market dynamic that causes otherwise intelligent decision makers to choose poorly: &#8220;You have 4 cores (which is a bad idea)? Well, then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eetimes.com\/rss\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207600531&#038;cid=RSSfeed_eetimes_newsRSS\">I&#8217;ll have 12<\/a> (which is a three-times-bigger idea)!&#8221;. (Yeah, I know that particular chip was mentioned as targeting servers, for which a much better argument can be made for multicore, but they&#8217;ll inevitably drive those into desktops, etc. because people don&#8217;t want to have to use different architectures for different machines).<\/p>\n<p>The one thing that could save us from going too far astray is mobile computing. Multicore has infected that world, too, but it isn&#8217;t as likely to take hold there. The need to keep power consumption under control will probably steer processor architects in more innovative directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm&#8230; I think I pretty much have to agree with Donald Knuth on this one: multicore processors are basically not that great of an idea for general-purpose computing. Problem is, this looks like one of those wrong turns that will lead us quite far afield before we get back to the highway. There&#8217;s a market [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}