I think the 5-6 year estimate is pessimistic. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_Phi for some background. I have it on a sort of nudge-and-wink authority that Intel already has in-house chips with 128 cores, and has distributed prototypes to a limited set of customers/partners. More good reasons to look at PyPy-STM, which has reached the stage of "useful" I think. On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Ron Adam <ron3200@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/26/2014 11:13 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 13:04:01 -0600 Ron Adam<ron3200@gmail.com> wrote:
My thoughts is that making python easier to multi-process on multi-core CPUs will be where the biggest performance gains will be. Think of 100 core chips in as soon as 5 or 6 years.
Won't happen on mainstream computers
(laptop/desktop/tablet/smartphone), as it's a totally silly thing to do there.
Which is silly?, 100 cores, or making python easier to multi-process?
The 5 or 6 years figure is my optimistic expectation for high end workstations and servers. Double that time for typical desktop, and maybe triple that for wearable devices.
Currently you can get 8 core high end desktop systems, and up to 18 core work stations with windows 8. They probably run python too.
I think the unknown is how much time it will take, not weather or not it will happen.
Cheers, Ron
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