Wow, somehow I missed this fact after 30 years of programming!
Yay for sarcasm. My point is that changing the performance characteristics of the lower levels of the storage hierarchy does not necessarily mean we need to make radical changes.
The lengthy boot-up process is now living on a set of cultural expectations. There is no longer a technical reason for its existing.
Maybe so; my point was just that I don't see how SSDs vs. magnetic disk fundamentally effect the boot-up process. Hibernation vs. power-off is orthogonal to the type of storage used.
SSD can also have lower power requirements. Combine SSD with the cloud, and you can have something which can respond faster to the typical user while eliminating any thoughts about storage size and backups.
If you just treat the Flash as RAM, with volatile RAM as a very large L3 cache, the notion of hard drive can just disappear. Everything just becomes orthogonally persistent.
I'm guessing this is a troll. Most programmers I talk to in person just get this without so much exposition.
Yay for sarcasm. My point is that changing the performance characteristics of the lower levels of the storage hierarchy does not necessarily mean we need to make radical changes.
The lengthy boot-up process is now living on a set of cultural expectations. There is no longer a technical reason for its existing.
Maybe so; my point was just that I don't see how SSDs vs. magnetic disk fundamentally effect the boot-up process. Hibernation vs. power-off is orthogonal to the type of storage used.