> I should have qualified. I mean *massive* parallelization when applied > to "average" use cases. I don't think it's totally unusable (I > complain about synchronous I/O on my phone every day), but it's being > pushed as a panacea, and that is what I think is wrong. Don Knuth > holds this opinion, but I think he's mostly alone on that, > unfortunately.
it's interesting that parallel wasn't cool when chips were getting noticably faster rapidly. perhaps the focus on parallelization is a sign there aren't any other ideas. - erik
