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I absolutely love the original analysis (which is why I shared it). The hardware version: anything capable of general purpose work is too important to use- so
by jmount 12y ago
I absolutely love the original analysis (which is why I shared it).
The hardware version: anything capable of general purpose work is too important to use- so you delegate to specialized hardware. That hardware then evolves the capability to do general work and therefore becomes itself too valuable to use.
The software version: Domain Specific Languages, Remote Procedure Call, and many others.
Current graphics ideas: shaders, CUDA, and so on.
- mikeash 12y agoIt's interesting how something like the opposite ended up happening. Microprocessors became so cheap that they're used in almost everything. In theory, your keyboard and monitor can do general work, if you update their firmware to tell them what to do. Even my (electric) toothbrush contains a microprocessor.