[rescue] SMP on intel wasteful?

[Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 04:03:14PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> 
>   They're largely simply not understood.  Most programmers today
> simply don't know what vector processing (or SIMD for that matter) is,
> much less understand how to effectively make use of it.  I believe
> they need to take steps to educate the developer base.  What those
> steps should be, however, I really don't know.

Too many programmers are Visual Basic weenie-droids who don't really
understand computers to begin with.

I have to deal routinely with a customer whose IT dept sends data in
comma separated value format - their head person cannot figure out how
to remove an extraneous comma (which leads to a blank field in the
middle of useful data) from the output files they send.  

And she is considered enough of a guru that she is paid quite well for
mismanaging their NT based SQL server applications.

Cordially

Patrick