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Poll (working engineers/developers): What is the most natural unit of computing power for you to think with?
  • Processor/core/thread
    50.6%
  • Client device or server
    19.7%
  • Virtual machine/container
    15.7%
  • Serverless blob in cloud
    14%
178 votesFinal results
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I don't code but I do design real time pvp games, and that's all about getting clients and servers to agree on reality in split seconds without making people feel like your thing isn't responsive. I don't know if I count but I voted
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This slices it entirely wrongly for me. My "naturalness" of a "unit of computing power" is almost entirely the clarity of its interface and how leaky that abstraction isn't, not how much computation it's doing.
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