alt Hacker NewsHonestly, i doubt it. That exposes many details to the programmers that many of them would prefer not to know.
The higher level the language, the less interest there is to manually manage memory. It is just something to offload to the gc/runtime/etc.
So, i think this is a no-go. The market wont accept it.
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dadoomer • yesterday at 11:53 PM
You don't need every programmer to leverage the architecture for the market to accept it, just a few that hyper-optimize an implementation to a highly valuable problem (e.g., ads or something like that).
You already don’t have a choice. The reason we are all in the cloud is that hardware stopped scaling properly vertically and had to scale horizontally, and we needed abstractions that kept us from going insane doing that.
If you really want to dumb down what I’m suggesting, it’s is tantamount to blade servers with a better backplane, treating the box as a single machine instead of a cluster. If IPC replaces a lot of the RPC, you kick the Amdahl’s Law can down the road at least a couple of process cycles before we have to think of more clever things to do.
We didn’t have any of the right tooling in place fifteen years ago when this problem first started to be unavoidable, but is now within reach, if not in fact extant.