> And maybe they have a behind the scenes collab with > Slack and select other app makers so that they can > be a part of the "Marathon" program too.

> And maybe they have a behind the scenes collab with > Slack and select other app makers so that they can > be a part of the "Marathon" program too. RIP the general purpose computer. :( Haha. I was truly truly not thinking along any such lines. Since heterogenuous cores are now a mainstream thing, with a mixture of full-throttle and performance-minded cores on a single die, and the performance cores may be hitting a wall until we get to smaller processes, perhaps the next frontier could be efficiency. Remember how some software proudly displayed those "optimized for MMX" or "optimized for 3DNow!" badges back in the day? What if there was something like that for apps that optimized for those efficiency cores, and what if the efficiency cores met them halfway by implementing some app-friendly stuff in hardware? Sort of like how some common Javascript string ops have dedicated CPU hardware dedicated to them now. Anyway, yeah. I'm probably just re-inventing CISC all over again, badly.