Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?

On 4/4/25 3:15 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 08:30:23 -0400, c186282 wrote:
 

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I'm not sure there are any little old ladies left to knit magnetic core.

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Last time I looked they were little asian ladies wit teeny nimble fingers.
Did all the coil winding in that factory.

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    Look up "rope memory"  :-)
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    Hey, it flew us to the moon ...
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 Who would ever give a flying fuck about this "Neolithic" technical
crap?  It's the future that is of concern.

   No future without a past.
   And past tricks/thinking/strategies CAN inspire
   the new.

My question has always been: when are these memory engineers (or
whatever they are called) going to produce cheap RAM memory that
can actually keep pace with the CPU?

   Never ...
   OK, Moore's Law is getting close to stalling-out CPU
   performance. Ergo, give it a few years, the memory
   MAY finally catch up.

For decades we have had to use various levels of high speed, though
minuscule, cache memory in order for our software to run, and from
a programming point of view cache management is a supreme bitch.
 The world needs cheap RAM that can operate at CPU speeds.  Then,
all programming would be a supreme breeze.

   Well, your 'future' isn't providing. MAYbe some odd
   idea from the past, just on better hardware ???

Cache memory is just another crutch, and its existence is indisputable
testimony that modern PC hardware is crippled shit.

   Well, I'd argue that on-chip cache is always gonna
   outperform - if for no other reason than the short
   circuit paths. These days, the speed of electricity
   over wires is becoming increasingly annoying - it's
   why they want photonics instead. Of course soon even
   that will be too slow soon enough ... and you can
   complain to Einstein .......