Nevin Liber <nevin_at_[hidden]> writes:

| On 17 October 2013 03:38, Peter Sommerlad <peter.sommerlad_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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| Hi, just to throw in my 0.02 CHF:
| On 17.10.2013, at 07:27, Nevin Liber <nevin_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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| Well, I dream the future with non-uniform memory architectures might make
| that argument wrong again. We might have "pointers" that differ
| substantially, depending if the memory address resides in RAM "directly"
| attached to a CPU or on a different CPU or on a GPU. And comparing such
| pointers wildly might not be the thing you should be allowed to do.
|
| Just remember, technology development often goes in circles, e.g., we get
| electric cars again after 100+ years, we are reinventing parallel
| programming (a lot of work from the 70s/80s gets rediscovered), etc.
|
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| I understand the fear argument, because (so far) that is the only argument
| being made for not changing the standard to match existing practice.

It is the "only argument being made" once you dismiss all the others you
do not agree with :-)

-- Gaby