They are (through prediction, reordering, etc in the CPU), but manual approaches like hinting or VLIW have always turned out to fail, and the automatic approaches we're using now turn out to have security issues like Spectre.
There are physical limits. E.g. clock speed can’t go so high that information must travel across the cpu faster than the speed of light. E.g.2. As caches get bigger, it takes more time to index them.
I didn't get past the first paragraph. The site lobbed four interruptions my way:
- Agree to cookie
- Forced "Do you want our newsletter" prompt
- Request to show notifications
- Pop-up icon to subscribe to notifications
... and one non-intrusive top-of-page banner notification, " Awesome! Your IP is not in our blacklists of abuse...". This last item (when dismissed) may have triggered the 4th item above.
There is so much wrong with the first section of the article, I could only put up with skimming the rest. The only thing I learned from the first section was not to marry the author.
"Sex is hard to come by as well. For all the new gadgets and supposed freedoms of modernity, it can be very hard to get laid – and expecting to do so regularly with new people is bound to end in disappointment after 30."
