Where is the promised parallel future?
On Habré in general and in this blog in particular, you can often read about the happiness that is about to come into the house of all mortals. I mean, multi-core processors, then gigabytes of RAM, then 64-bit systems ... Do you want to know how close the future really is?
Surely advanced gamers know about Steam. For those who are less advanced, or simply have a "provincial" slow Internet, I will say that this is an online distribution system for computer games, and it is hits that everyone has heard and are very popular in the world. The developers of the Steam service have detailed statistics on the computers of their users and you can always see these statistics.
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The statistics page contains a report for the last month. From it we see the following.
The number of cars with four cores is growing and decreasing with one. There are more detailed statistics on the cores.
The amount of RAM is growing.
The share of 64-bit operating systems is already 23.4%
Conclusion - more and more people have multi-core machines with a large memory capacity and 64-bit operating systems. Only the fact that the most popular among gamers is still 32-bit operating systems darkens the upcoming bright future. Although, even those who have a 64-bit operating system are not in a hurry to use its advantages. Please note that machines with four or more gigabytes of memory are only about 19%, while the number of installations of a 64-bit system is 23%.
Surely advanced gamers know about Steam. For those who are less advanced, or simply have a "provincial" slow Internet, I will say that this is an online distribution system for computer games, and it is hits that everyone has heard and are very popular in the world. The developers of the Steam service have detailed statistics on the computers of their users and you can always see these statistics.
')
The statistics page contains a report for the last month. From it we see the following.
The number of cars with four cores is growing and decreasing with one. There are more detailed statistics on the cores.
The amount of RAM is growing.
The share of 64-bit operating systems is already 23.4%
Conclusion - more and more people have multi-core machines with a large memory capacity and 64-bit operating systems. Only the fact that the most popular among gamers is still 32-bit operating systems darkens the upcoming bright future. Although, even those who have a 64-bit operating system are not in a hurry to use its advantages. Please note that machines with four or more gigabytes of memory are only about 19%, while the number of installations of a 64-bit system is 23%.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/79953/
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