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How many orders of magnitude slower is this?
by 7e 4y ago
How many orders of magnitude slower is this?
- Palomides 4y agoauthor shows a program that adds two integers and takes 7 seconds to run, and the way the system processes data results in 20000x the RAM usage
- willcipriano 4y agoSo similar to your average electron app.
- nevir 4y agoTurns out Electron is SUPER SECURE
- xrd 4y agoThere is something surreal about the last example where you take a Rick Astley video that's 9MB and it becomes 188GB after FHE. That seems like a new category of rick-rolling by some cyberpunk.
- tossaway0 4y agoWe've complained long enough about complexity in code being the barrier to speed. Now it's processing power once again. I'll take it if we can rely on the security.
- barbazoo 4y ago> I'll take it if we can rely on the security. What's a use case here? Will this one day make communication more secure? If so, how?
- phkahler 4y agoMy bet is on digital currency. Your wallet will be able to send and receive from other wallets locally. Not like crypto. No distributed ledger. You will make transactions locally. You can't just alter your balances though because they are encrypted. Not sure how you get data in or out without keys though. FHE will be a part of such currency though.
- fnordpiglet 4y agoAdding two numbers takes 7 seconds, so many many many But - it’s a lot better than it has been for FHE. This is progress even if it seems absurd.
- flangola7 4y agoIf all you need to do is handle a symmetric key exchange that you then use for everything else, that might be enough.
- sillysaurusx 4y agoThis is tempting to believe, but unfortunately the dream is to be able to run applications on someone else's servers without them knowing what you're doing. That's when I lost interest in FHE. If you want to use it, you have to use it everywhere, and it's just too slow. Hopefully I'm wrong about that.
- TeMPOraL 4y agoI feel it's already at the edge of being useful in practice. Compute and memory are cheap, and we're wasting a lot of it - so even with overhead this big, simple calculations wrapped in FHE wouldn't be prohibitively expensive - and may just be useful enough to create new types of software systems.
- NovemberWhiskey 4y ago7 seconds to add two numbers; that's roughly, what, 10 orders of magnitude slower than without FHE? I'm not sure compute is that cheap.
- unshavedyak 4y agoIt would be interesting to see a whole new generation of writing apps with hyper optimized code. We suddenly go back to the 1950s(?) in relative compute power for apps behind FHE. Not sure what could be done with it at 7s though hah.