> maybe the Ken quote is false too - hard to believe he's that out of touch
The whole table was ganging up on Roman and his crazy idea, I believe ;). The objection mostly was to Intel dumping the complexity of another core on the programmer after it ran out of steam in containing parallelism within the pipeline. Even though Inferno / CSP / Erlang / etc. type people were clearly anxious to make use of parallelism at the level of multiple processor cores, I don't think the average Java programmer was. (That's not to say that Java programmers hadn't been asking for a rude awakening. Perhaps someday, they will also learn what 'Object-Oriented' programming is. ☺) Nick
