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To be fair, I doubt I fully understand what is going on fully under the hood. I usually bring this line up when folks lament that we don't have abstractions th
by taeric 3y ago
To be fair, I doubt I fully understand what is going on fully under the hood. I usually bring this line up when folks lament that we don't have abstractions that fits the instruction set of the computer. Ignoring that many of the abstractions of the computer are orthogonal to isolated instructions, at this point. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72423227/is-a-schedulable-unit-of-cpu-time-slice-process-or-thread https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72423227/is-a-schedulabl... was a fun read as I was looking for something that would explore some of that for me.
- Tabular-Iceberg 3y agoThere can be degrees of understanding. What I’ve been seeing is devs deciding that everything should be async to improve performance, but then running every single task in its own event loop, making it exactly as synchronous as before, but with more overhead.