I input food and output energy and waste... would you call the body an operating system? No, each of these systems may affect each other but by and large remain independent. It's because (except in extreme cases) there is no time-critical diversion of resources from one system to the other... much like the "smart-home".
If we ever get to a point where the energy usage in my home has to be managed at the level of a cache miss or page fault then something has gone terribly wrong.
Today, 16 would be an efficient number because it would only require a 4bit address. 10 years from now we'll likely be needing to address 32 cores or more in which case we would need 5. I haven't looked at the instruction set, but I imagine that the architecture is highly scalable.
After 8 years of full time employment and graduate study here in the US, I have come to the same conclusion:
On average, a highly-skilled STEM immigrant produces more jobs than they consume.
I'd rather offer a path to citizenship for each graduating STEM student (and their immediate family) who have employment lined up. Then we could regulate the number of immigrant-potential-citizens at the student visa level.
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I input food and output energy and waste ... would you call the body an operating system? No, each of these systems may affect each other but by and large remain independent. It's because (except in extreme cases) there is no time-critical diversion of resources from one system to the other ... much like the "smart-home".
If we ever get to a point where the energy usage in my home has to be managed at the level of a cache miss or page fault then something has gone terribly wrong.
Today, 16 would be an efficient number because it would only require a 4bit address. 10 years from now we'll likely be needing to address 32 cores or more in which case we would need 5. I haven't looked at the instruction set, but I imagine that the architecture is highly scalable.
After 8 years of full time employment and graduate study here in the US, I have come to the same conclusion:
On average, a highly-skilled STEM immigrant produces more jobs than they consume.
I'd rather offer a path to citizenship for each graduating STEM student (and their immediate family) who have employment lined up. Then we could regulate the number of immigrant-potential-citizens at the student visa level.