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Kickaha
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2021-06-08, 02:37

Ok... so everyone stayed to the very end to check out Object Capture and Swift Concurrency, right?

AR just got a massive boost, and ERLANG LIVES.

Erlang was a language created by Ericsson Research that is famously robust and flexible in distributed environments, such as the cell networks it was designed to run.

Actors are small pieces of code that can be invoked, and rested, at will. If they disappear (bad network, whatever), it just recovers with another resource.

First-class support in Swift means that failback concurrency, parallelism, and such are baked in to every iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS device. Multi-core is a no-brainer.

LLVM/clang means that every device can be compiled for on the fly... and having them be increasingly M* family CPU/GPU makes that simpler.

Universal Control means that every device on your iCloud ID knows about each other and can work seamlessly, to the point of being able to dynamically request each other to perform computation that may be invoked on demand.

Now assume that they aren't throwing Object Capture out there for fun, and have a VR/AR display in the works, one that needs more computation power that an on-board system can reasonably be powered to handle.

Starting to see where this can go?

Boring, my ass. This was phenomenal.

Last edited by Kickaha : 2021-06-08 at 03:04.
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