Conspiracy Theory #1

BCS none at anon.com
Fri Nov 20 14:05:01 PST 2009


Hello Travis,

> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 
>> Today that reality is very visible already from certain spots. I've
>> recently switched fields from machine learning/nlp research to
>> web/industry. Although the fields are apparently very different, they
>> have a lot in common, along with the simple adage that obsession with
>> performance is a survival skill that (according to all trend
>> extrapolations I could gather) is projected to become more, not less,
>> important.
>> 
>> Andrei
>> 
> Except in the web world performance is network and parallelism (cloud
> computing). Much less code efficiency, much more programmer
> productivity (which currently is mutually exclusive, but doesn't have
> to be)
> 

Even if you have network parallelism, CPU loads still costs money. Many server 
farms are not space limited but power limited. They can't get enough power 
out of the power company to run more servers. (And take a guess at what there 
power bills cost!)





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