A recent trend in both academia and industry has been in resource disaggregation. This is sometimes called FAR memory, which refers to the unbundling of hardware resources from physical computers. The general rule of thumb is remote memory is faster than local disk. But if you need to go pointer chasing through gigabytes of memory on the other hand, this is not likely to play nice.
- Pre-show:
- Follow-up:
- Synology Dynamic DNS
- Marco’s security camera update
- Some interesting research on memory and caching from Akshay Narayan
- App Store to require developers to describe API use
- John’s annual post-vacation tradition
#askatp
:
- What are we dropping down to UIKit for? (from Aaron Bushnell)
- What does John think of the α6700? (from David Campbell)
- Why is my experience of social networks so different from what I hear you describe? (from Ben Gunsberger)
- Post-show: [Some] weird things that Casey does
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