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Every cell in your body includes gigabytes worth of source code for the entire organism. Maybe this kind of redundancy isn’t such a bad idea? The industry has t
by bradleyjg 8y ago
Every cell in your body includes gigabytes worth of source code for the entire organism. Maybe this kind of redundancy isn’t such a bad idea? The industry has tried shared library schemes many many times and it always turns out to be a mess.
- pavlov 8y agoThere's over 10^13 cells in the human body. If my computer had enough memory to fit 10 trillion copies of Electron, I wouldn't be complaining.
- krylon 8y ago> If my computer had enough memory to fit 10 trillion copies of Electron, I wouldn't be complaining. You would, once you saw the power bill. ;-) SCNR
- kbenson 8y agoI think there was a shift lost in the metaphor. Most people don't care if they have hundreds of copies of distros scattered around their humongous disks, but they might care if all those distros are running and actively using RAM and CPU cycles. In the same vein, I'm pretty sure that while all those cells contain a copy of DNA, they don't all execute the whole copy all the time.
- theyinwhy 8y agoDeduping in ram anyone? https://theithollow.com/2012/12/17/memory-de-duplication-in-vmware/ https://theithollow.com/2012/12/17/memory-de-duplication-in-...