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Snapchat may not, but many of these companies have Bay Area Headquarters. I didn't bother to count but it's a lot. https://companiesmarketcap.com/software/largest-software-com...

That doesn't mean the good years are going to last forever but I think we've got a bit of time before the end.

I actually liked the article and I think the first image is really informative.

I guess my point is the "clock frequency ramp time" is really due to the interplay of a bunch of different control systems, some in the OS and some not. And when those systems get mixed together, in a somewhat uncontrolled way (which is the case for most PCs), a huge amount of variability is the result and that's what the article did a good job quantifying but IMHO didn't make clear.

But at the time scales in your plots "how quickly CPUs change clock speeds" is basically an implementation choice.

Just my $0.02

I read the article in full, and the data & information was interesting, but I have to say a lot of the points you're making in the comments now was not clear from the article text alone.

Another important point is you're measuring the default behavior of the various control systems. One can change that which would allow the user to observe something else.

Industry, for the most part, needs predictability and scale for it to function well. It's very difficult to accomplish that without at least some rigidity.

Punk rock is small by definition. Once it becomes large it changes to mainstream.

The presenters in Defcon seem like they enjoy what they do, for example.

> and even different ISAs

That is super interesting. I did some Googling but couldn't find an example of one. Do you know of an example of an OS that can handle different ISAs? I suppose in some sense an accelerator can be considered a "core with a different ISA" but I interpreted the statement as basically supporting multiple ABIs in parallel. Maybe I overreached?