Was Moore's law, now something else, parallelism

[Edward Ned Harvey]

> From: discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org [mailto:discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org] On
> Behalf Of Mark Woodward
> 
> Maybe its an OS issue? Like the RAID process described above, operating
> systems have to become far more modular and parallel to benefit. 

You mean more modular and parallel than what?  They already support SMP (for
years since) and virtualization and hyperthreading...  How do you mean more
modular?


> That
> whole user-space micro-kernel process stuff doesn't sound so useless
> now.  Monolithic/Modular kernels ruled as CPU cores were scarce. 

They still rule now.  Is there some alternative that doesn't use a
monolithic or modular kernel?  I don't know of any other option...


> With
> many multiple CPUs, there is actually REAL benefit that can be taken
> from it. Also, old truisms may now becoming wrong. A user space process
> for handling services should now be effectively more efficient (in
> operation) than kernel based ones as long as resource access and
> contention are managed well.

Now this one, I am completely missing.  How on earth can anything in user
space be *more* efficient than in kernel space?

I could see it, if you were saying "just as efficient" ... but "more"
efficient?