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In the old days, mechanical sympathy was called RTFM
by drudru11 11y ago
In the old days, mechanical sympathy was called RTFM
- oldmanjay 11y agoThere are a lot more manuals these days, and they are way longer. Also it turns out that a lot of code from those old days was crap, so maybe RTFM was inadequate.
- hinkley 11y agoMost of those manuals were shitty to begin with. You end up having to read the entire thing to properly understand a part of the functionality that got its own chapter. And don't get me started on the toy examples. The happy path is the least useful example you can use. I would stumble on that by myself.
- drudru11 11y agoSeriously, I should have been more specific. If you take a comp. arch. class, then you get the generalization. After that, you can just read the relevant part of a manual.
- drudru11 11y agoYour right, maybe we should read 1000 blog posts instead :-b Seriously, I should have been more specific. If you take a comp. arch. class, then you get the generalization. After that, you can just read the relevant part of a manual. Not all code written in the past ignored the hierarchy. The linux kernel itself had many tunings for this.
- newobj 11y agoRTFM for which flavor of machine? Mostly works when you control your own bare metal server, other scenarios, not so much.
- drudru11 11y agoI should have said... take a comp. arch class. In general, many doing systems programming utilized their knowledge of the arch for optimization.