[geeks] New Itanium machines from SGI

[Kurt Huhn]

"Chris Byrne" <chris at chrisbyrne.com> wrote:

> Also we have never really used the potential of massivley threaded
> applications. Most of our proceeses are still largely monolithic or at
> least only partially threaded. With better multithreading and better
> SMP implementations we could really be doing a lot more with the
> processers we have. 

You mean we have to learn how to write good code?

*gasp*

I'm not a developer, so I only have a basic understanding of what you
mean, but it all makes sense to me.  I've seen some very ugly code
recently, chock full of shit that even *I* know slows things down.  Some
of it written by people that I work with, people that should know
better...

I agree.  I really think a lot of software out there is written very
poorly, and truly needs work.

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