[rescue] SMP on intel wasteful?

[Dave McGuire]

On June 26, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > BTW. I am a SIMD man, because the world is SIMD. :-) So I am betting my
> > future on vector-like processors coming back in fashion!!!!
> 
> You mean like Altivec and SSE2?  Nobody seems to be using them to full
> potential. 

  They're largely simply not understood.  Most programmers today
simply don't know what vector processing (or SIMD for that matter) is,
much less understand how to effectively make use of it.  I believe
they need to take steps to educate the developer base.  What those
steps should be, however, I really don't know.

        -Dave

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Dave McGuire                  "Needing a calculator indicates that
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