Comments on: Google acquires programming toolmaker PeakStream

The start-up sells tools for writing software that can take advantage of multicore processors as well as graphics and gaming chips.

[servermaker]

another SHR meltdown

Another Kleiner/Sequoia company hits the side of a mountain. With "help" like that, who needs competition?!

[thecatch]

A tool to improve a broken down car...

What is needed is a new foundation (new car) with all new parts
(software for this discussion).

Peakstream, like Mitosis at Intel is still a guessing game/
prefetch predicting, what data may be access from memory
using the best available math on board to go retrieve that data.

So many other problems are critical to the process like
scheduling on the multiple cores, file system architecture, data
base management tasks etc. etc.

Not the best solution possible, (Peakstream), but better then
nothing/ and better then yesterday's old way of doing business.

But the new foundation is needed with all parts from the 'soup
to nuts' included.

That foundation is coming.

[chuck_whealton]

Just another example...

Just another example of how that article where Google claims that "foreign workers are the key to their success" is nothing but a joke.

The key to their success is having overvalued stock where they can go off and waste lots of stockholder dollars. Kind of like they did on YouTube. Kind of like they do on their upper managements security detail. Kind of like they did with this purchase.

Take their overvalued stock away and they're absolutely NOTHING... With the exception of their search engine, have they actually PRODUCED anything ON THEIR OWN that would really categorize them as successful? Or innovative?

Charles R. Whealton
Charles Whealton @ pleasedontspam.com