[Python-ideas] Python 3000 TIOBE -3%

[Gregory P. Smith]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:52:16 -0600
> Massimo Di Pierro
> <massimo.dipierro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The way I see it is not whether Python has threads, fibers, coroutines, etc.
>> The problem is that in 5 years we going to have on the market CPUs with
>> 100 cores
>
> This is definitely untrue. No CPU maker has plans for a general-purpose
> 100-core CPU.

Intel already has immediate plans for 10 core cpus, those have well
functioning HT so they should be considered 20 core.  Two socket
boards are quite common, there's 40 cores.  4+ socket boards exist
bringing your total to 80+ cores connected to a bucket of dram on a
single motherboard. These are the types of systems in data centers
being made available to people to run their computationally intensive
software on. That counts as general purpose in my book.

-gps