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Esp8266 costs dollar and half, shipping from China included. The main reason for its popularity is the ultralow price, nobody is going to be bolting on expensiv
by YUMad 8y ago
Esp8266 costs dollar and half, shipping from China included. The main reason for its popularity is the ultralow price, nobody is going to be bolting on expensive addons to it.
If you want better performance, just buy esp32 for 6 dollars shipped - it has dual cpu, increased speed and many other improvements.
- rtpg 8y agoI’m thinking more about perf and trying to set up the minimal thing. But I guess your point still stands. If you have this huge machine making tiny super fast general chips, what’s the point of trying to go specialized
- pjmlp 8y agoEven perf, think about PCs being sold with 512 KB, with possible expansion for 640 KB, e.g. PCW 1512. Plenty of gaming power already available, even if that means Assembly to actually take it to the limit.
- TheSoftwareGuy 8y agoThere could still be space for certain hardware solutions. The eap8266 is pretty low power, but adding a bunch of cpu cores is likely to negate that a lot. Specialized hardware solutions often use less power than another cpu core. This is important because there are lots of uses involving leaving the esp running on a small battery for a long time
- pjmlp 8y agoAnd it is much better than many PCs from the MS-DOS generation, so a lot is already possible with that tiny creature.