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A comment on Intel's roadmap for Optane SSDs with 1,000x performance. Parent comment

Re:Intel's roadmap for Optane SSDs with 1,000x performance by imtringued on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @02:38AM (#11900188)
>Suddenly "serialization" to disk is no longer required

That's not true. You'd still want excel to just save your sheets as xls file and show it to a coworker as opposed to sharing the entire excel program state. Upgrading from one version to another also requires a stable persistent data format for things such as configurations.

Not to mention that you still need serialization to communicate over a network.

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Re:Intel's roadmap for Optane SSDs with 1,000x performance by nneonneo on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @04:05AM (#11900510)
Yes, you're definitely right - "serialization" as a concept is going to still be needed for data interchange. I just didn't want to mention it because that's just status quo, not part of the new computing model.

In my original comment, I simply meant that you would no longer have to serialize your data to your own disk.

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