Lee Duna to TechnologyEnglish • 10 months agoYes, you can have too many CPU cores - Ampere's 192-core chips break ARM64 Linux kernel in two-socket systems, company requests higher core count supportwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1339arrow-down14cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1335arrow-down1external-linkYes, you can have too many CPU cores - Ampere's 192-core chips break ARM64 Linux kernel in two-socket systems, company requests higher core count supportwww.tomshardware.comLee Duna to TechnologyEnglish • 10 months agomessage-square38fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•10 months agoOr do what ietf did “We’re running out of 32bit addresses, should we add some bits and call it an even 48? No! Let’s double the number of addresses 96 fucking times!” Start using 128bit for everything.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-210 months agoIf you have to solve a problem, do it in a way that solves it for good. Max value of uint128 is ~340 undecillion (~3.4e38).
minus-squareJoshlinkfedilinkEnglish3•10 months agoIs it fair to assume that those are more cores than there ever has and will be made?
Or do what ietf did “We’re running out of 32bit addresses, should we add some bits and call it an even 48? No! Let’s double the number of addresses 96 fucking times!”
Start using 128bit for everything.
If you have to solve a problem, do it in a way that solves it for good.
Max value of
uint128is ~340 undecillion (~3.4e38).Is it fair to assume that those are more cores than there ever has and will be made?
Honestly, I think so.