Optane Resurgence?
The tech looks super cool if it does get commercialized.
The tech looks super cool if it does get commercialized.
Cost permitting, this stuff would replace RAM, not the drive. No more loading into ram; now the bottleneck is loading into cache and that will always be trivially fast just because cache is so small.
Even if its too expensive to replace RAM, if it can fit the minimum bits of an OS then I think cold boot time still goes to 10s of milliseconds. Might take a couple years, but interactivity doesnt need to wait on ram to be filled.
Barely so. NVMe sequential throughput is measured in gigabytes per second. So you can get this under 300ms. And you can optimize the order in which things are loaded so that the important ones arrive first, not all in-memory data is hot.
What makes booting take time are serial dependencies between boot stages, timers (boot prompts for humans, but also for hardware to power up), careful device enumeration and initialization and stuff like that.
If you've been unpowered all day, or if your hardware has changed, or you're worried about security, then you can choose boot from scratch. The only other reason, IMO, is because the computer has just been put together. If all those parts can restore their previous configuration, all they have to do is signal "yep, I'm still in the same configuration" and we should be able to pick up where we left off (again, except for disk drives/ram/networking etc).
Capacity and price killed it, no word about these in the article