How does this compare with Google's software defined far memory: https://research.google/pubs/pub48551/?
Transparent memory offloading: more memory at a fraction of the cost and power
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Re: Transparent memory offloading: more memory at a fraction of the cost and power
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
did you even read this?
I get that this comment might have struck a nerve with you, but the site guidelines specifically recommend not asking if the commenter read the article. > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." FWIW I don’t think that the parent comment is wrong, but rather over-generalizing. If you’re close to the pro…
That's fair, I apologize. It struck a nerve because of how blase it was with dismissal, but I too am guilty of that at times, I suppose.
Also, I am not close to the project at all - learned about it here.
Re: Transparent memory offloading: more memory at a fraction of the cost and power
#33The inevitable, albeit cynic response: Imagine how much DRAM could be saved if Facebook was shut down! Or put differently: I have only the greatest respect for the Facebook engineers who come up with innovations like this. This one seems to save cost, lowers power use and improves performance all at the same time. If only this engineering talent could be steered to better causes. Facebook is a net negative for societ…
Apparently you don't use Tiktok. Facebook is bad but TikTok is next level bad. It damages a whole new generation's dopamine system and their mental health and who knows what. FB is a declining empire which is less relevant day by day . Time will take care of it. But TikTok is the real bad boy. If you put chinese communist government into equation , then it is even worse.
Oh absolutely. They copied what Facebook did and turned it up to 11. Their CCP ties give TikTok its own evil spin. The Chinese basically planted a mental health bomb among American teenagers.
That doesn’t make Facebook the good guy though. In fact, they made it ridiculously easy for TikTok to come up with an even more addictive product.
Re: Transparent memory offloading: more memory at a fraction of the cost and power
#34The inevitable, albeit cynic response: Imagine how much DRAM could be saved if Facebook was shut down! Or put differently: I have only the greatest respect for the Facebook engineers who come up with innovations like this. This one seems to save cost, lowers power use and improves performance all at the same time. If only this engineering talent could be steered to better causes. Facebook is a net negative for societ…
>Facebook is a net negative for society Bold claim, Cotton. I personally have a hard time imagining a world where if Facebook didn't exist, something like it wouldn't either. There were plenty of companies vying for the same idea. Or is the suggestion that all usage of the internet to allow people to connect with each other are bad.
You haven’t paid much attention in the last 10 years if you still think that Facebook is about connecting people.
Re: Transparent memory offloading: more memory at a fraction of the cost and power
#35I'm confused. They invented a swap partition?
Re: Transparent memory offloading: more memory at a fraction of the cost and power
#36How does this compare with Google's software defined far memory: https://research.google/pubs/pub48551/ ?
Oh no don't bring back far pointers please.
Re: Transparent memory offloading: more memory at a fraction of the cost and power
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently you don't use Tiktok. Facebook is bad but TikTok is next level bad. It damages a whole new generation's dopamine system and their mental health and who knows what. FB is a declining empire which is less relevant day by day . Time will take care of it. But TikTok is the real bad boy. If you put chinese communist government into equation , then it is even worse.
Oh absolutely. They copied what Facebook did and turned it up to 11. Their CCP ties give TikTok its own evil spin. The Chinese basically planted a mental health bomb among American teenagers. That doesn’t make Facebook the good guy though. In fact, they made it ridiculously easy for TikTok to come up with an even more addictive product.
Are Chinese teens immune to it?
Re: Transparent memory offloading: more memory at a fraction of the cost and power
#38The inevitable, albeit cynic response: Imagine how much DRAM could be saved if Facebook was shut down! Or put differently: I have only the greatest respect for the Facebook engineers who come up with innovations like this. This one seems to save cost, lowers power use and improves performance all at the same time. If only this engineering talent could be steered to better causes. Facebook is a net negative for societ…
>Facebook is a net negative for society Bold claim, Cotton. I personally have a hard time imagining a world where if Facebook didn't exist, something like it wouldn't either. There were plenty of companies vying for the same idea. Or is the suggestion that all usage of the internet to allow people to connect with each other are bad.
Sure there would be something else similiar to Facebook but that doesn't make the critisism against Facebook wrong or invalid.
The critisism would then go to Bookface.
Independent of it, look what Facebook left: Nothing of importance.
Re: Transparent memory offloading: more memory at a fraction of the cost and power
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
If only there was some way to know! Some kind of... hyperlink, with text, where the answers you seek were available in a language you know, English, perhaps?
The linked article practically goes out of its way to obscure how much this work is incrementally building on Linux’s existing paging design versus designing their own solution. Sure there’s a couple places that mention Linux defaults don’t work for them, but it isn’t all that clear how difficult it was to change things
Thanks for stating my opinion with such clarity. :)
Why come up with these weird acronyms and try to sell it like it’s some entirely new idea? Why not just start that page with “We improved the virtual memory subsystem of the Linux kernel...” and take it from there? That would be both comprehensible and impressive.
Everybody wants to come up with their own terminology from scratch nowadays, even for things that already have well established terminology. For those of us who understand a lot and want to systematize knowledge in our heads it’s such a drag.
Re: Transparent memory offloading: more memory at a fraction of the cost and power
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh absolutely. They copied what Facebook did and turned it up to 11. Their CCP ties give TikTok its own evil spin. The Chinese basically planted a mental health bomb among American teenagers. That doesn’t make Facebook the good guy though. In fact, they made it ridiculously easy for TikTok to come up with an even more addictive product.
Are Chinese teens immune to it?
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