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I said in the 90's that when Moore's Law died, we could finally fix all the kludges we had been building on. I see a lot of those kludges being fixed, so I thi
by RecycledEle 3y ago
I said in the 90's that when Moore's Law died, we could finally fix all the kludges we had been building on.
I see a lot of those kludges being fixed, so I think Moore's law is really dead.
- gregw134 3y agoHave any examples of what's being fixed?
- RecycledEle 3y agox64 virtual memory has to be on the boot drive Parts of x64 OSes are still single-threaded Programs still crash. We can brick a computer so it does not start and refuses to tell us what is wrong. The person who owns and uses the PC is not in complete control. Much information is hidden from them. There are malware programs.
- KeplerBoy 3y agoI feel like kludges keep getting added and Software has reached a point where it's actually slowing down across the board from consumer's point of view.
- Xeamek 3y agoExactly this. I lowkey hope for intel and the rest of chip makers to hit a wall, just so we (programmers) will stop getting away with terribly slow software. I really wonder how would the landscape change if it suddenly stopped being acceptable for even the basic functionality to take the massive amount of resources it takes now. ...Not to even mention economics or environmental impact of it all,
- speed_spread 3y agoWe still build production systems with interpreted untyped languages like there's no tomorrow...