Re: [Chicken-users] rails-like framework

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Alex Shinn wrote:
> Probably the most important use of SMP-based POSIX threads is video
> games, yet the vast majority of games are single-threaded.
>   
Because it's way easier to do the logic and debugging for the single 
threaded case.  This is a commonly reported finding throughout the game 
industry.  Game developers typically want control over everything that's 
going on, especially with respect to latency.  This is easier to achieve 
with single threading.

> Also, it's not clear that multicore is the future, anymore than it is
> that RISC is the future :)
RISC is, sadly, the past.  It failed to take hold in the marketplace 
because it was different from the dominant architecture, Intel.  Intel 
munged as much of RISC as was useful to its purposes.  The DEC Alpha was 
the best CPU in the world in 1998, and it is no more.  Spent my paying 
career on that chip.  There will of course be new RISC and VLIW 
architectures, but from a $$$$$$$$ standpoint their architectural 
characteristics are not interesting.  What matters is whether they can 
fabricate and market in sufficient volume to give Intel a real 
challenge.  Intel kicked the snot out of DEC because they had better 
fabrication and better marketing.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
ex-DECcie