[Python-ideas] Python 3000 TIOBE -3%

[Matt Joiner]

Damn straight.
On Feb 12, 2012 10:29 AM, "Gregory P. Smith" <greg at krypto.org> wrote:

> 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
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