I wish I didn’t know developers who would look at this and go “What’s the joke? Sounds like a good idea.”
Guilty.
95 percent of the people using computers are just using them for a browser.
Let’s implement the DOM in hardware!
Ok but how bad does it get when the 256MB emoji cache is full? Cause that’s not enough space for all my emoji.
I want that thing to never do a captcha again, please
With catptchas becoming more and more common as sites try to stop AI crawlers, I suspect that’s going to become a real thing…
A real thing that irrevocably identifies you online, with absolutely no anonymity, and costs $9.95 per month, and only works on Cloudfare captchas.
Damn do you need 64gb of sweet DDR5 to run this
Needs 2x 10GbE ports to download bloated React apps directly into its onboard cache. Otherwise perfect.
I love the idea that somebody at NIST is in charge of collating a Standard Minions Meme Collection.
I know this is a joke - but there totally is hardware acceleration for some of this stuff in modern processors. There definitely is for JS, JSON and generally string stuff. It’s not even x86 only, ARM got these kinds of things as well (although likely less of it)
Hardware acceleration for an interpreted programming language? Can you point me to a specific example or clarify what you mean, because I find that hard to believe.
I’m not sure what they were going for, but I know that modern browsers do just in time compilation for regularly repeated code parts to allow much faster execution, so “interpreted programming language” may be a little of a blurry definition. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Just_In_Time_Compilation
I couldn’t find any info on any hardware specific to JS/JSON for clients but I’m no expert, maybe they will provide more info.
