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That makes a lot of sense. Computers nowadays have gotten so fast that in many use cases the performance is more than enough while heat/power constraints are still an issue. This could open up the possibility to embed chips in many crazy contraptions.

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But at the same time software got slower and slower to the point that every processor upgrade just feels the same as the previous one. Sure there are some speedups, but I feel software could be way faster than it is today. There is little reason for a command line only linux to be slow in an older machine, and yet it is slugish.

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