Re:IBM says it has made working versions of 7nm chips
by joshuapants on Thursday July 09, 2015 @12:25PM
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> do you really think most of a modern Android (to take the theme to its Javaesque extreme) stack is the most efficient way to accomplish processing?
Reminds me of a version of this image[1] which has a discussion superimposed over it that says, "but if he had a big enough pile of ladders he could get over the wall!" and someone responds, "welcome to Android optimization." I think we see something similar with Javascript performance.
Re:IBM says it has made working versions of 7nm chips
by ethbro on Thursday July 09, 2015 @12:50PM
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Ha! That's the first non- https://interfacelift.com/ image I've put as my background for a while.
The older I get, the more I start seeing over-complexity in stacks as a security risk as well. I feel like there's a fundamental maximum to the number of levels of abstraction one can keep in one's head "enough" to avoid creating layer interaction bugs. Stack overflow, indeed. :)
Compare that to some of the code people ran through 6502-derivatives.
Abstraction may be more efficient in terms of programmer time, and performance efficiency may be high enough so as to be immaterial, but the two shouldn't be conflated.