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[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Well, do you have dedicated JSON hardware?

[–] MareOfNights@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Please no, don't subsidize anything Java-Script. It will only make it less efficient.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And thus JsPU was born from Lemmy

[–] MareOfNights@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Modern sites: This page requires a JsPU to run which is not present on this system. The website will run in reduced feature mode.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

My thoughts on software in general over the past 20 years. So many programs inefficiently written and in 4th level languages just eats up any CPU/memory gain. (Less soap box and more of a curious what if to how fast things would be if we still wrote highly optimized programs)

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Answer: there'd be far less software in the world, it would all be more archaic and less useful, and our phones and laptops would just sit at 2% utilization most of the time.

There's an opportunity cost to everything, including fussing over whether that value can be stored as an int instead of a double to save 8 bits of space. High level languages let developers express their feature and business logic faster, with fewer bugs, and much lower ongoing maintenance costs.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Even if our apps used resources better the adware will just use the free space.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I fully concur. There's tons of really inefficient software out there that wastes resources just because for a long time, available resources grew fast enough to just keep using more of them without the net speed of an application slowing down. If we didn't have so many lazy SW devs, I suspect the reduction in needed CPU cycles would have a measurable positive effect on climate change.

[–] fleckenstein@social.lizzy.rs 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The R in ARM and RISC is a lie.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The website title says "Arm Developer", not "ARM Developer", in a clearly non-acronym way so it's a guide for making prosthetic hardware. Of course you want a cyborg arm to parse JS natively, why else even get one?

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Nope it's still a register-register op, that's very much load-store architecture.

It's reduced, not minimalist, otherwise every RISC CPU out there would only have one instruction like decrement and branch if nonzero. RISC-V would not have an extension mechanism. The instruction exists because it makes things faster because you don't have to do manual bit-fiddling over 10 instructions to achieve a thing already-existing ALU logic can do in a single cycle. A thing that isn't even javascript-specific (or terribly relevant to json), it's a specific float to int cast with specific rounding and overflow mode. Would it more palatable to your tastes if the CPU were to do macro-op fusion on 10(!) instructions to get the same result?

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Lie starts with L, dummy