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A Look Back at Single-Threaded CPU Performance

NOTE: 促使我收录这篇文章的原因是: 它对multicore parallel computing发展趋势的总结,在工程hardware的 CPU\Parallel-computing 章节中讨论了这个主题。

Perhaps the turning point came in May 2004, when Intel canceled its latest single-core development effort to focus on multicore designs. Later that year, Herb Sutter wrote his now-famous article, The Free Lunch Is Over. Not all software will run remarkably faster year-over-year anymore, he warned us. Concurrent software would continue its meteoric(极速的) rise, but single-threaded software was about to get left in the dust.