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It took a little re-learning for me, since the aughts had so much furor and exuberance for multithreaded possibilities, as a holdover from using the newly abund
by caprese 8y ago
It took a little re-learning for me, since the aughts had so much furor and exuberance for multithreaded possibilities, as a holdover from using the newly abundant computational resources as efficiently as possible.
The reality is, or has become, that the abundance of computational resources has resulted in computers being able to be created in the aether spontaneously, groups of computers even. Making them do one thing in a consistent time span is more important than filling up the theoretical limitation of their allocated resources.
Computer in this context being the elements that allow for computation, as much as an abacus or a professional human has been called a computer. Since many times these compute instances reside solely in the memory of a host machine, somewhere up the chain are the machines made of metal.
A cluster of node processes, of which have their own external memory store and their own database, communicating via REST, is great. The distinction between programming languages being moved into further into irrelevancy, with people that haven't re-learned this crying discrimination, now that their once-useful elitist gatekeeping only serves to remind everyone else how out of touch this person is.
It is fascinating how many computers we actually use now. When factoring in the CDNs over top of our redundant clusters containing single threaded processes with an occasional worker.