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Nah, nah, it's about damn time software engineers start giving a shit about performance again.

• StavrosK 8y ago
  ...because we've already got all the computing power we'll ever need? You think software developers not caring about performance is why we can't quickly simulate weather systems or protein folding or do large-scale ML?
  • megaman22 8y ago
    I'd settle for text editors that don't lock up when I type an open paren. Or use entire sticks of RAM at rest.
    • ReverseCold 8y ago
      > text editors that don't lock up when I type an open paren This miiiiight be just you. Even sublime text (forget vim or another cli editor) runs fine on ancient hardware. What type of files are you editing? > Or use entire sticks of RAM at rest. I'd hope my text editors would use as much ram as it needs in order to give me the smoothest experience. If possible, that means storing the whole file in RAM (up to a set limit).
    • artursapek 8y ago
      Stop using editors written in Javascript by overpaid new-grads
    • sokoloff 8y ago
      Some here are old enough to remember "emacs: eight megabytes and constantly swapping", back when a stick of RAM could have been 8 Megabytes...
  • azernik 8y ago
    GGP comment seemed to mostly be caring about personal computers, in which field we do have most the computing power we will need. For those kinds of hard problems, the advances seem to be coming in massively parallel computing of the kind that is advancing (the GPGPU has transformed ML, for example).
    • StavrosK 8y ago
      Yes, but the amount of computation that is practical to put in a car or a phone probably isn't going to increase much.
      • nine_k 8y ago
        With self-driving cars, it definitely is.