Software-based speculative parallelism for multicore processors

直到最近，普通的计算机程序员还可以利用集成电路芯片上不断增加的数亿个晶体管，而不需要任何额外的努力，因为每个晶体管都被组织成一个处理器。然而，技术限制最近迫使工业界转向多核处理器：芯片中的并行处理器。要充分利用这种并行性，需要使用普通程序员没有的技能来转换所有程序-这对加拿大软件行业来说是一个巨大的挑战。

Until recently, an average computer programmer could exploit the increasing hundreds of millions of transistors available on integrated circuit chips without any extra effort, since they were each organized as a single processor. However, technology limitations have recently forced industry to switch to multicore processors: parallel processors within a chip. To fully exploit this parallelism requires that all programs be transformed using skills which average programmers do not have---a significant challenge for the Canadian software industry.