Do everything in Java…

[via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 18 December 2014 at 08:56:29 UTC, ketmar via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 08:09:08 +0000
> via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, 18 December 2014 at 01:16:38 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:37:43AM +0000, via Digitalmars-d 
>> > wrote:
>> >> Regular HD I/O is quite slow, but with fast SSD on PCIe and 
>> >> a good
>> >> database-like index locked to memory…
>> >
>> > That's hardly a solution that will work for the general D 
>> > user, many of
>> > whom may not have this specific setup.
>> 
>> By the time this would be ready, most programmers will have 
>> PCIe interfaced SSD. At 100.000 IOPS it is pretty ok.
>
> didn't i say that the whole "64-bit" hype sux? ;-) that's about 
> "memory
> as database".

Heh, btw, I just read on osnews.com that HP is going to create a 
new hardware platform The Machine and a new operating system for 
it based on resistor based non-volatile memory called memristors 
that is comparable to dram in speed. Pretty interesting actually:

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/533066/hp-will-release-a-revolutionary-new-operating-system-in-2015/