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If you like the idea and work in robotics try out copper-rs, it works on the same underpinning concept but at compile time in rust + a graph description. The latest addition to the kernel is a profile guided scheduling feature that allows you to optimize the concurrency of the graph still at compile time based on previous timing measurements from its deterministic logs.

It looks good reading it like this but I am always scared about the unintended effects. Like the ... cookie banners. Dynamic pricing absolutely has to go this is so unethical

From 5h ago, and suddenly you found that immediately, this is very juvenile.

I was about to say this. Even if the offline version was an authorized thing, there was no license attached to the project, meaning full copyright.

I think it needed to be said because I really don't see why.

LLM are excellent translation tools. Nothing is learned or stolen from them out of this exercise if this is a copyright issue you are getting at.

Then Rust? Why picking on it, the language is morally corrupt? In what way? If it were a rewrite in Object Pascal it would be better?

What warrants an off the cuff comment like this? I can take any piece of software and just say a vague statement like that. All of software... What does it even bring to the conversation? Just vague "they"s again we keep on propping up? Who is unethical? The mold team? The AI? The rust foundation? The ASCII character set? The cloud system it has been compiled on? Oh no obviously the backdoors in there?! Oh let us guess!!

I don't know if you got my point. Starting a multi gigabyte machinery for the web just for a chatting app is pure insanity sorry. It will be slow to start, slow to react and a battery hog vs a comparable quality QT app. The worse part is usually people use the web stack for desktop app because they don't want to bother giving a good experience to the people on their own native platform.

It is probably very domain specific. In robotics for example everything is a zero sum game: CPU, memory bandwidth, GPU, battery life etc ... So it is really a topic, probably true for anything embedded actually. Some other offline applications: HFT, Telco etc.. I wish the GUI apps devs respect more the laptop resources they are running on, don't get me started on the 4 instances of chrome I need to run just for discord, signal etc ...

Author here, feel free to ask any questions about this feature or copper in general!

This is very basic for any self driving car system you can see on the road today or even 10 years ago.

yeah, this will definitely shorten the lifetime of an nvme.

but check my other comments, it makes a difference, even on a slow nvme. Probably the overhead of the wasted small extent, and maybe prefetching?

check my other comments with numbers, while small for a human being, I could see the variations benchmarking copper-rs.

My observation is that it is not completely true. I constantly have a close to full partition in ext4 and there is no secrets when there is no space the filesystem WILL create a bazillion of small extents because, it has no physical choice! and everytime you have a non maxed out extent, it will create an overhead I don't see how magically you can avoid that. And it is not like a few, on my main working partition, extends of a few KB by the thousands per files are created instead of the optimal size of 128MB. If you just use defrag in read mode on it, it is red from top to bottom, you cannot find a block of few MB with no fragmented file in it.