Re: Asynchronous

[Adam Crosby <adam () uptill3 com>]

Who still uses spinning disks for any real data processing system?  SSDs have been common for years.
http://www.slideshare.net/crucially/just-use-ssds-really-really

On Oct 6, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Kyle Creyts wrote:

> Everybody always worries about cores, threads, and processing... what about similarly capable storage to feed these 
> processing units? Rapid-write, redundancy, and rapid-read. Pick two, throw the third out.
>
> What about a storage model that better supports distributed and asynchronous workloads? Or even just large sequential 
> ones?
>
> And seriously? Spinning discs? So passe. We've been using them for how many years now?
>
> On Oct 6, 2011 7:58 PM, "Hatta" <tmdhat () gmail com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com> wrote:
> > > So while I'm in the process of running a large asynchronous event-driven
> > > product in a VM in another window, it's a good time to read all sorts of
> > > things about asynchronous programming.
> > >
> > > Frankly, I'm not a huge fan of it, but Chris is, and he's a better
> > > programmer than me, so we'll leave it at that. Largely, I think people are
> > > fans of Async because most languages and kernels are terrible at threads.
> > > Python, for example, does not have threads. "No worky worky", as we say
> > > around here.
> >
> > It's not really assertive to say "python does not have threads"
> > It's just that threads does not work as we expected in CPython
> > specially (but not only) because of the Global Interpreter Lock.
> >
> > whatver...
> >
> > I believe we're moving towards the massive use of threads in a near future
> > because processors are likely to grow in cores not in speed. with many cores
> > many threads become reasonable.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure many will disagree --- that's the fun part of
> > discussion after all.
> >
> > -- 
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