[vox] Moore's law coming to an end

[Brian Lavender]

My point is that single threaded programming models we so often depend upon
will come to an end because we will have to program more so in parallel.
I am saying that we will see a growth of language development to better
address concurrent programming. 

brian

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 09:41:54PM -0800, Alex Mandel wrote:
> The wikipedia peanut gallery seems to agree/disagree and it all depends
> on your definition of what Moore's law really means. If you talk about
> the literal definition of the shrinking of transistors, that end may
> come at some pt, but that doesn't mean transistors won't be replaced by
> something else or that performance will still grow at the same rate due
> to other methods. Personally I like the point on the page that now that
> transistors have gotten so small you can start making bigger chips that
> pack more in.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
> 
> Enjoy,
> Alex
> 
> On 11/07/2011 03:58 PM, Darth Borehd wrote:
> > People have been saying its coming to an end for years.  It hasn't happened
> > yet and I doubt it ever will.
> > 
> > 
> > On 7 November 2011 11:36, Brian Lavender <brian at brie.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> As Moore's Law comes to a close, it appears that we will see more
> >> concurrent programming!
> >> Simple Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming (SCOOP) looks very
> >> interesting.
> >> http://docs.eiffel.com/book/solutions/concurrent-eiffel-scoop
> >>
> >> I have long been an admirer of Eiffel, but I have yet to work with it in
> >> detail.
> >>
> >> brian
> >> --
> >> Brian Lavender
> >> http://www.brie.com/brian/
> >>
> >> "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
> >> make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
> >> way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
> >>
> >> Professor C. A. R. Hoare
> >> The 1980 Turing award lecture
> 
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Brian Lavender
http://www.brie.com/brian/

"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture