ramon156 3 hours ago

I love these tiny explainers! Even if I already know what it's about, having a confirmation helps throughout reading.

mhavelka77 6 hours ago

"mmap, without the fog"

I don't know if this is just me being paranoid, but every time I see a phrase like this in an article I feel like it's co-written by an LLM and it makes me mad...

  • puika 5 hours ago

    The article does feel like Gemini when you ask it to explain you something in layman terms, but co-authored by chatgpt with nonsense like "without the fog".

drbig 13 hours ago

Instruction pipelining and this is exactly why I wish we still have the time to go back to "it is exactly as it is", think the 6502 or any architecture that does not pretend/map/table/proxy/ringaway anything.

That, but a hell lot of it with fast interconnect!

... one can always dream.

  • drbig an hour ago

    The point is that we should acknowledged those "cheats" came with their reasons and that they did improve performance etc. But, they also did come with a cost (Meltdown, Spectre anyone?) and fundamentally introduced _complexities_, which at today's level of manufacturing and end of Moore's law may not be the best tradeoffs.

    I'm just expressing the general sentiment of distaste for piling stuff upon stuff and holding it with a duct-tape, without ever stepping back and looking at what we have, or at least should have, learnt and where we are today in the technological stack.

  • ojbyrne 11 hours ago

    The article is essentially describing virtual memory (with enhancements) which predates the 6502 by a decade or so.

  • taeric 12 hours ago

    I'm curious how this dream is superior to where we are? Yes, things are more complex. But it isn't like this complexity didn't buy us anything. Quite the contrary.

    • harry8 11 hours ago

      > ...buy us anything.

      Totally depends on who "us" and isn't. What problem is being solved etc. In the aggregate clearly the trade off has been beneficial to the most people. If what you want to do got traded, well you can still dream.

  • loeg 11 hours ago

    But why?

sanskarix 3 hours ago

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  • paulf38 an hour ago

    In what way are the error reports "just noise"?