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CyberRage
·3 yıl önce·discuss
'this is not true in numerics' - shows no evidence...

GPUs are gaining traction in FP workloads, it can be seen clearly with CPU/GPU data-center market share

Moore's law is pretty much over, we can't simply print more performance these days, we are going to see major shift to accelerators which would require some rewrites, otherwise you're going to be stuck
CyberRage
·3 yıl önce·discuss
Honestly HPC moved to GPUs for most of the heavy FP compute

for CPUs INT perf is king, even in HPC/enterprise
CyberRage
·3 yıl önce·discuss
heavily depends on the workload

Some workloads can be accelerated via AVX-512 as shown here by Anandtech:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17601/intel-core-i9-13900k-an...

See how AMD CPUs with AVX-512 enabled some a massive boost even with similar/less cores

I would agree that most typical workloads don't benefit much from AVX-512, it requires software support and good use-case(wide parallel SIMD)
CyberRage
·4 yıl önce·discuss
People try to address that will simpler solutions that wouldn't break backwards compatibility or require a full re-write.

Isolation, mitigation and prevention of exploitation is common.
CyberRage
·4 yıl önce·discuss
Did you even read what you linked? I wouldn't say "already happening" more like first early steps. Operating systems have a massive attack surface, would take years to convert code from C\C++ to Rust and likely be more vulnerable initially(the old code base went through decades of scrutiny, hundreds of scanners\fuzzers etc)
CyberRage
·4 yıl önce·discuss
definitely rare and highly targeted exploits.

Exploits for mobile phones in the "open market" are in the millions of dollars, for a single working exploit.

But the incentive is growing as these devices are becoming the center of our lives.
CyberRage
·4 yıl önce·discuss
Yes but practically this isn't viable.

Nothing is impossible unless it disobeys the laws of physics(which are also limited to what we currently know)

It would be equivalent to saying, well it isn't economic enough for energy companies to simply create nuclear fusion reactors...

Some things are just extremely hard and there's no obvious answer even if you had "unlimited" funds.
CyberRage
·4 yıl önce·discuss
As if rewriting entire OS components is easy or viable for vendors, even big ones like Apple or Microsoft.

Also backwards compatibility is a feature many wouldn't give away for extra security, at least not now.