By sixwings
via rebelscience.blogspot.com
Published: Oct 09 2007 / 02:37
Adding more processing cores to a CPU should have been a relatively painless evolution of computer technology but it turned out to be a real pain in the ass, programming wise. Why? To understand the problem, we must go back to the very beginning of the computer age, close to a hundred and fifty years ago, when an Englishman named Charles Babbage designed the world’s first general purpose computer, the analytical engine.
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docmach replied ago:
Rebel Science News is a troll.
habitue replied ago:
I'm really sick of this troll. He clearly believes that computers are not subject to mathematics, that somehow it is impossible to describe what computers do with math. Good luck understanding even moderately complex operation without being able to model it in any way mathematically.
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