Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>]

On 27.12.15 01:37, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> I would think that the Ada 2X project should be thinking about these things, and
> wonder what others here think about them.

Maybe the word "distributed" needs to include more features
of the language and its library.

Considering economy, the increase in resources does not seem
to always entail new algorithms or corresponding new features
of languages(*). I have seen it simplify scaling when we could
just reuse the same program in a larger address space.

A program system that serves many instead of one will save the cost
of a few computers or their parts, so virtualization covers some
use cases already, without programs needing to change.

Another influence of economy on source text, given no major advances
in battery technology, dynamos, generators, etc., is energy
savings. This may inspire a whole now approach to optimizations in
program translation: I imagine an aspect called "Importance".  It
lets the compiler choose instructions and orders of execution in a
way that uses resources when needed or as available.

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(*) “We don’t have better algorithms. We just have more data.”
                                           -- P. Norvig