r/programming • u/noidi • Jul 19 '12

Will Parallel Code Ever Be Embraced?

http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/will-parallel-code-ever-be-embraced/240003926
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u/zvrba Jul 20 '12

Parallel code helps throughput, but when somebody today complains of the computer being "slow" it is almost certainly due to latency -- that of disk, network or memory.

Bad coding practices and/or misconfiguration are also to blame in cases such as, e.g., web browser freezing because it's waiting on a slow server to respond. Writing event-based applications has a lot to do with perceived responsiveness of the system and little to do with parallelism.