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> “What happens,” Tyson said, “if there’s a bug that crashes the entire program?” Why do we assume that it's written in C, as opposed to - say - Erlang? ;)
by d33 11y ago
> “What happens,” Tyson said, “if there’s a bug that crashes the entire program?”
Why do we assume that it's written in C, as opposed to - say - Erlang? ;)
- dave2000 11y agoBecause if it wasn't written in C (or an even lower level language) cars wouldn't be fast enough and you might as well walk everywhere.
- droffel 11y agoIf it was written in Lisp, there would be Cars everywhere.
- philovivero 11y agoI'm sorry. I cdr understand your joke.
- outworlder 11y agoIn case my sarcasm detector is malfunctioning and this is not a joke: A "slower" language would just mean that this universe's "ticks" would take longer. Cars would be just fine. https://www.xkcd.com/505/ https://www.xkcd.com/505/
- dave2000 11y agoYou know what they say: analyzing a joke is like dissecting a frog; nobody cares, and the frog dies.
- Drakim 11y agoBecause the world isn't a trivially small operation? ;)
- ilconsigliere 11y agoThe Matrix is definitely OTP
- paulpauper 11y agobetter than java , otherwise it would be realllly slow. C and Assembly is at least fast
- d33 11y agoI'd prefer slow to "in the best case, everything blows up at once - in the worst, there's a memory error that if exploited, turns your world into a dystopia".
- dave2000 11y ago“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” - Douglas Adams
- dashoffset 11y agoNot sure speed is relevant here. Those inside the simulation would not notice the difference, would they?
- koolba 11y agoThe Java simulation would be just as fast as the C one in the median case. The two problems with it are that 1) the big bang would have taken forever to start up and 2) the universe would eventually skip a beat for a stop-the-world GC cycle.
- lmilcin 11y agoIf the world is simulated then "real" time simulation speed does not have any influence on our experiences inside simulation. For all we know the next-up world can have different dimensionality from ours or no at all.
- badgers 11y agoWhat if the simulation running our universe isn't air gapped and we were able to break out of the sandbox running us and inject ourselves into the parent universe?