On 28/09/2007, James Fuller
<james(_dot_)fuller(_dot_)2007(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
There are always other factors that determine successful software, and
usually change is imposed by fundamental shifts in hardware. I
believe these fundamental hardware improvements will eventually push
us into using languages that are designed for parallel processing;
which may mean that XSLT loses out.
Until there's a better way to manipulate XML I imagine XSLT will be
around as a long as XML is... (and isn't XSLT ideally suited for
parallel processing?)
Slightly OT: I think the link below might be it, but I remember
reading that chips are on the horizon that can take instructions from
a single thread, identify which ones can be safetly run in parallel
and then run them concurrently. That is, improve performance of a
single threaded app by using hardware mutithreading:
http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/chip_multi_thread.html
Also, the new(ish) concurrency features is Java make writing
multithreaded apps much easier, so win-win.
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Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com
Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/
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