Question for software engineering pros

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Cymric wrote:
Quite recently (I forget where and when, might have been on this forum) I began to wonder what the Next Big Thing in software engineering is going to be. We've had quite a lot of experience with OOP now, to the point where there are already plenty of books which can comfortably write about the good and the bad of it---and not just spew marketing hype.

I can guess that threading and parallelisation are going to be quite important topics, now that the big CPU vendors are slowly inching towards multiple (quite possibly vectorised) cores on a single chip. Quite a number of people have pointed out that sticking a second core on a die is not a recipe for double performance, you need to be intelligent about it. (I recall Hammer pointing out, in his own informative if a little terse way, that vectorised GFX-chips are very sensitive to their drivers; so sensitive that nVidia abandoned their attempts at selling them.)

But are there other things which are currently just below the horizon?

Good question, I would put money on the next big thing being better support for Multithreading.

Languages like Occam had extensive support for asynchronous objects and paralisation... I want to see stuff like that incorporated into C/C++ compilers, dealing with Mutexes and semaphores is a bit of a pain :-)

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Karlos wrote:

What? :-?

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Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
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Karlos was talking about an algorithm to deal with data, so two or more seperately running programs within a program (called threads) cannot acces the same data at the same time. If I know it correctly, if a thread wants to acces the data at the same time as another thread, it is placed in a queue.
very nice indeed to prevent lockups :-)

Ahhh, a queue for the mutex, got it :-)

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Cheers karlos... anyway, back on topic, I'd still like to see better support for multithreading built into C/C++ :-D

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cecilia wrote:

Not pleasant is it?

that depends on what i'm going to do with this picture.....and on THAT note.....Good Nite! :lol:

:-o ... "...Everyone else has had more sex than me..."