Spending Moore's dividend

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 62-69

  Larus, James ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE; C CODES; COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; HIGHER-LEVEL LANGUAGES; LANGUAGE FEATURES; MOORE'S LAW; MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR; PARALLEL COMPUTING; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PROGRAMMING MODELS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE FUNCTIONALITY; SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LINGUISTICS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 67049100821     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1506409.1506425     Document Type: Article

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