Re: Intel Optane SSD
Originally Posted by
bobx001
Yep, an OS that takes 3 hours to load, and when you want to go look at the web with any browser, prepare to make yourself a coffee, while it "finishes opening a page".
That's the way it's all going at the moment, and I don't see Academia addressing that issue, which is the memory wasting lazy programming techniques they are "teaching". Lunacy !
Actually, with this sort of system you probably won't reboot very often - mostly it will be something like suspend, but using non-volatile memory - so a very fast hibernate. The result is "instant on" for most users most of the time.
However, for web pages I think I agree. Also its going to get worse with web-assembly which will effectively mean the browser really does become another operating system. So much for open source - we will now be expected to run programs that we not only don't have the source for but we won't even have the executables installed and in a lot of cases the data will be in someone-else's control as well.
I am not in touch with what is being taught these days - can you be a bit more explicit as to what you consider to be memory wasting techniques ?
I have many ideas, even some I haven't thought of yet.