Lee Duna to TechnologyEnglish • 1 year 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 • 1 year agomessage-square38fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•1 year 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-21 year 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•1 year 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
uint128
is ~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.