We have immensely powerful systems today, but it would seem the levels of abstraction and libraries add overhead (just how much? I don't know). I wonder how thi

We have immensely powerful systems today, but it would seem the levels of abstraction and libraries add overhead (just how much? I don't know). I wonder how things like BareMetal (http://www.returninfinity.com/baremetal.html http://www.returninfinity.com/baremetal.html) would shake things up? Strip away those layers, and get back to damn near bare metal. Seems to be the magic here: they skipped all the abstraction, and are allowing direct access to the storage (I have to imagine, it's massively parallel as well).