I should state from the very beginning that the title of this post is a bit of a tease. I don’t know why nothing can go faster than the speed of light. No one does. It is a fundamental postulate … Read more
July 31 2021 A few years ago I was really bothered by an academic paper. Some researchers in France put together a comparison showing lots of ways you could implement concurrent editing, using various CRDT and OT algorithms. And they … Read more
Last week I showed fascinating screenshots of how M1 Macs can run background processes exclusively on their four ‘efficiency’ cores. I’ve now been digging deeper, and this article is a summary of how Intel and M1 Macs deal with multiple … Read more
Something I wonder is: what if computation, with today’s technology but done differently, could be – say – a million times faster? Here’s my thinking. If there’s a defining feature of what computers are, I would say it’s abstraction layers. … Read more