XPost: comp.os.linux.misc, alt.politics, alt.economy   
   XPost: talk.politics.misc   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 05/11/2024 20:31, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   > On the other hand, I recently re-worked a summary report program   
   > to build the entire table in memory and spew it out after all   
   > input files had been read, because I realized that these days,   
   > given the finite volume of data I'm working with, I effectively   
   > _do_  have unlimited memory.   
      
   I have a friend who does maths research, involving operations on   
   gigantic matrices.   
   His original code, some of which is assembler to access some obscure   
   INTEL instructions to do with vector maths, was designed to use 128GB.   
   On someone else's extremely expensive computer in a far away land.   
   That is no longer an option, and he spent last week rewriting it to suit   
   the biggest motherboard he can easily obtain.   
      
   Typically a run takes several months. The power usage on the computer is   
   about 500W.   
      
   So people can still find ways to push the limits of computers.   
      
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