alt Hacker NewsThat paper turned out to be enterily wrong, not only did single core performance keep increasing significantly, today most software is being written with almost no concurrency in mind
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stingraycharles • today at 2:37 AM
The only software that is written without concurrency in mind is software that uses very few resources.
Anything else heavily uses concurrency in all kinds of ways.
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That's because concurrency is really in the SDK or stdlib for the language or platform.
In my opinion, that's really the best place for it. From what I understand, that's always been FORTRAN's secret sauce.
I've been doing threaded code since Day One (Machine Code), and have gotten it wrong, quite often. There are a million things that can cause concurrent code to actually perform worse than single-thread code.
These days, I usually just let the platform pick the threads, and generally write code that will play along.