It does sound like each server is its own process. I think you're correct that it would be a little faster if all games shared a single process. That said, then if one crashed it'd bring the rest down.
This is one of those things that might take weeks just to _test_. Personally I suspect the speedup by merging them would be pretty minor, so I think they've made the right choice just keeping them separate.
I've found context switching to be surprisingly cheap when you only have a few hundred threads. But ultimately, no way to know for sure without testing it. A lot of optimization is just vibes and hypothesize.
I think the jist of it is, you probably have sufficiently low requests/second (<1000) that using postgres as a cache is totally reasonable - which it is. If your hitting your load tests and hardware spend, no need to optimise more.
AVX10 will continue to support 512-bit instructions, 256-bit instructions, 128-bit instructions and scalar instructions (FP32 & FP64), exactly like the current AMD and Intel CPUs with AVX-512 support.
So none of the current instructions will be removed.
The previous plan of Intel was that in consumer CPUs the 512-bit instructions shall be removed, keeping only 256-bit instructions, 128-bit instructions and scalar instructions (FP32 & FP64).
Nevertheless, the most ancient versions of AVX-512 had only 512-bit instructions and scalar instructions.
The 256-bit instructions and 128-bit instructions have been added in Skylake Server, as a workaround for the bad power management of Intel at that time, which forced huge drops in clock frequency for long times when using wide instructions.
On modern CPUs there is no need to use 256-bit or 128-bit instructions. You gain nothing with them. AVX10 instructions have masks, so you can process any arbitrary length with a 512-bit instruction, in the case of loop prologues or epilogues.
The use of 512-bit instructions simplifies many optimized programs, because one instruction processes one cache line.
Zen 5 beats Arrow Lake without AVX512. For workloads that use it you then get another huge performance jump with Zen 5, but Arrow Lake doesn't even have the instructions.
Do you have any evidence to support that claim? Competitive programmers (especially those with their own libraries ready to go) can be incredibly fast at solving coding challenges.
Weirder still, the discounts stack! So blind people can benefit from buying a black-and-white TV for an additional discount.
I've given this a lot of thought in the past. The best I could come up with is that "legally blind" could still allow for someone with _very poor_ (colour) vision...
Ehhh. Feel like CAP theorem is a bit overrated. It's correct from a theoretical purist point of view, but you can still solve many of these kinds of issues in practice. (Similarly, people overstate the halting problem - which can be solved for computers with finite memory.)
If you think the CAP theorem is overrated, you don't understand the CAP theorem.
It is not just correct from a theoretical point of view. Any tradeoff you make in reality is in accordance to the CAP theorem, one way or another.
The only thing that is overrated is the idea of consistency, availability or pratition tolerance to be discrete things, when in reality they are continuous.
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