Herb Sutter on Heterosexual Computing

Looks like Microsoft is tired of HomogenousHomosexual Computing (ie. Apple/Macs) and paints a possible future of mainstream HeterogenousHeterosexual Computing.
 
http://media.ch9.ms/ch9/7655/e3d5a308-d1fb-4693-998e-9f04000f7655/AMDFusionHerbSutterKeynoteAMP_high_ch9.mp4

It's a bit Microsoft biased, made me cringe a bit in a few spots, but the bulk of the talk is rather interesting. Herb Sutter used to be the chairperson of the ISO/IEC C and C++ language committees, by the way. I wonder how the Linux kernel will adapt to heterogeneous computing? We already have OpenCL, but the kernel isn't using it itself--is there any application for this kind of stuff inside of a kernel?

>>13
Yes.

$ cat aaa.cpp
void f() { return f(); }
int main() { f(); return 0; }
$ clang aaa.cpp -fvisibility=hidden -O2 -S; cat aaa.s
    .file    "aaa.cpp"
    .text
    .hidden    _Z1fv
    .globl    _Z1fv
    .align    16, 0x90
    .type    _Z1fv,@function
[b]_Z1fv:                                  # @_Z1fv
# BB#0:
    ret[/b]
.Ltmp0:
    .size    _Z1fv, .Ltmp0-_Z1fv

    .hidden    main
    .globl    main
    .align    16, 0x90
    .type    main,@function
main:                                   # @main
# BB#0:
    xorl    %eax, %eax
    ret
.Ltmp1:
    .size    main, .Ltmp1-main


    .section    ".note.GNU-stack","",@progbits
$ clang aaa.cpp -fvisibility=hidden -O2; ./a.out
$ clang --version
clang version 2.9 (tags/RELEASE_29/final)
Target: i386-pc-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix

I'm getting the SVN trunk now.