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Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This? by spectrum1234 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @12:57AM (#16752072)
Actually the world could be procedurally generated.

And time in this world wouldn't have to be directly proportional to the base level world.

Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This? by carlmr on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @07:02AM (#16753618)
It might be procedurally generated just for me, and everyone else is an NPC that only gets spawned randomly when I see them. They can keep my close friends in Cache, my acquaintances in RAM and the outside world on hard disk.