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    Automatic Vectorization

    Does anyone know if an operating system is coming out with this as a kernel level implementation. I think its hugely important with the next generation of multicore architectures which could have 16 cores easily to take the task of code vectorization off of the Application Programmers. Yeh for me it might not be that difficult to add a Thread here and there to spread out the work, but then again what happened to that big thing called Hardware Abstraction. I shouldn't have to worry about how many cores a computer has. By programming for the oldest platform, all my code should work on new OS models.

    I've heard of some compilers that will try to vectorize your code, but I think this should be handled by the OS at image load time.

    "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
     - Dwight D. Eisenhower

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