Comment by mrguyorama
Comment by mrguyorama 10 months ago
At some point you will just need to offload the actual "processing" part to some nice old chap named Dave who has himself an abacus, and every now and then you send him a letter and he moves some stones and sends a letter back with the result.
I think you have invented the most cursed form of virtualized cloud computing where the memory is connected by a very slow network.
Bit of course you can solve this by sending letters speculatively, and having Dave keep copies of his letters back to you so he reference them for recently set values, that way you can at least keep Dave busy while the letters are in flight.