Bob Blainey is a Distinguished Engineer in the IBM Software Group, responsible for the technical roadmap for software in the era of multi-core and related next-generation systems innovations. Bob is an expert in programming languages and compilers having spent much of his career at IBM driving ever-greater performance and parallelism through program analyses and transformations. Immediately prior to his current position, Bob was CTO for Java at IBM. He is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, an IBM Master Inventor, and, most impressive of all, manages to remain sane with two pre-teen daughters in the house.
As software developers we have enjoyed a long trend of consistent performance improvement from processor technology. In fact, for the last 20 years processor performance has consistently doubled about every two years or so. What would happen in a world where these performance improvem...Aug. 27, 2007 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 18,553 Replies: 1
