Journal Nevyn's Journal: UI for 80 cores
So you've probably all seen the 80 core CPUs in 5 years story.
One thing that I immediately thought (after, OMG WTF!) was "what the hell is the UI going to be like for that". For instance top currently has a summary line for each core, but having over 3 terminal screens (80x24 is as god intended) just for the summary seems unlikely to be appreciated. On the other hand having a program with a single task have CPU usage with an upper bound of 1.25% CPU seems less than useful. This seems really bad (Ie. can't treat that many cores seperately and you can't treat them as a single unit).
There's also the (probably huge) set of minor problems with things like And-httpd starting sysconf(_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) number of tasks by default. Which works well for the 1-4 CPU/core case, but is likely to be annoying with 80 cores.
Any thoughts?
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