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Because languages are used for optimizing programmer output (these days) while CPUs are designed for general use compute. I think it would be a regression in t

Because languages are used for optimizing programmer output (these days) while CPUs are designed for general use compute. I think it would be a regression in technology to start having Intel Web-Compute Processors and Intel Gaming-Compute Processors but you know... that's just crazy me.

pulse7 6y ago
IBM has hardware that accelerates XML processing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_WebSphere_DataPower_SOA_Appliances https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_WebSphere_DataPower_SOA_Ap...
- infogulch 6y ago
  Wow, if that's not proof that xml is a terrible format, I don't know what is.
  - pjmlp 6y ago
    It might not be optimal, but it certainly is better than the alternatives regarding machine processing, data validation, graphical tooling and comments.
  - simion314 6y ago
    >Wow, if that's not proof that xml is a terrible format, A bad format for what? Do you mean that you assume that HTML,markdown would look better in something like JSON? I want to see a "proof" for documents you write in JSON by hand.