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> communication costs dwarf almost every other cost. That may have been true 10 or 20 years ago when networking was much slower.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
> communication costs dwarf almost every other cost.
That may have been true 10 or 20 years ago when networking was much slower.
- ljw1001 8y agoits still true because everything else is faster, too
- bunderbunder 8y agoEverything else was much slower, too. Oftentimes the biggest cost associated with communication is latency, and the one thing that hasn't changed over the past few decades is the speed of light.
- lomnakkus 8y agoThe problem usually isn't so much throughput, it's latency... and the speed of light sets a lower bound on that, unfortunately.