Re: Re[2]: Is Lua the next big thing?

[Dave Dodge <dododge@...>]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 06:29:31AM -0700, gary ng wrote:
> --- Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> wrote:
> > i'm not sure if we really can afford this restriction in the
> > future when we have dozens of CPU's even in simple home computers.
>
> Is shared memory model really suitable when we scale
> pass the "a handful of core per CPU" architecture ?

Sure, if you design your application to make use of it.  Itanium2 and
UltraSparc have been supporting this model for years.  You can buy
today a single (albeit extremely expensive) machine from SGI that has
hundreds of CPUs and terabytes of shared RAM, running one instance of
Linux.

                                                  -Dave Dodge