No I am thinking of the fact that code gets bigger, since assets get bigger, which results in execution is slower.
Actually there is a whole domain of application for which 64bits coding results in slower code.
Plus extending memory address space results in slower memory access. L1, L2, L3 caches are hardly accessible from python/ruby/...(ahhh using register is sooo fast).
Which in turn results in more watt/instructions.
Nowadays, the IT industry might be the leading one in its contribution to fossil energy consumption.
Do we need to add coal plants to support the cloud insanity bloating web pages to 16Mb for applications that are hardly more than 8 operation calculators to tell you how "green" you are?
I have a degree in ASIC design. Modern x86_64 architecture is insane. It has a lot of hidden complex mechanic built in that are de facto additional CPUs inside the CPU for on the fly optimisations (memory+OOP), "security", buses, plug n'play...
And who pays?
Actual IT industry is literally taxing the masses for something they neither ask nor need.
The IT is locking consumers in arbitrary choices that results in higher costs.
Actually there is a whole domain of application for which 64bits coding results in slower code.
Plus extending memory address space results in slower memory access. L1, L2, L3 caches are hardly accessible from python/ruby/...(ahhh using register is sooo fast).
Which in turn results in more watt/instructions.
Nowadays, the IT industry might be the leading one in its contribution to fossil energy consumption.
Do we need to add coal plants to support the cloud insanity bloating web pages to 16Mb for applications that are hardly more than 8 operation calculators to tell you how "green" you are?
I have a degree in ASIC design. Modern x86_64 architecture is insane. It has a lot of hidden complex mechanic built in that are de facto additional CPUs inside the CPU for on the fly optimisations (memory+OOP), "security", buses, plug n'play...
And who pays?
Actual IT industry is literally taxing the masses for something they neither ask nor need.
The IT is locking consumers in arbitrary choices that results in higher costs.