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> operating systems and hardware all move at lightning pace not really, last big leap was the ability to unlock gpu for stream processing, and that's it. it's
by LoSboccacc 10y ago
> operating systems and hardware all move at lightning pace
not really, last big leap was the ability to unlock gpu for stream processing, and that's it.
it's quite faster today as ten or one year ago, but at it's core it's still a von neumann machine and not much has been discovered ever since, mostly we're repackaging under a new name things that have been discovered in the 70s', like the thick vs thin client debate, which played more or less the same over and over again as the bottleneck switched from bandwidth to latency to client performances, the last iteration of which was ember and angular precompilation.
- noir_lord 10y agoSome of the stuff goes back even further than that. The thread on the Intel Optane stuff the other day had an interesting conversation about how you would program for such systems and someone said we already did, mainframes 50 years ago. It's nice to see old ideas in a fresh context.