Hardware is the answer
``Moore's Law will save us!''
We complain when Microsoft pushes hardware growth with fat slow bloated shitware.
Processor speeds aren't increasing in pace with memory. Memory access is getting slower and slower. Tweaking locality of reference becomes increasingly important.
Hardware is a cop out, not an answer.
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