What if you could strip away the layers of abstraction that operating systems impose and interact directly with your computer’s hardware? Imagine crafting a program where every instruction is executed ...
On the hardware side this strategy expresses itself in what Sun calls chip level multi-threading: a solution to the gap between memory access and CPU speeds based on automatically interleaving a ...
Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example), sequential ...