Following up on that last thought, about how linearity is the illusion: this talk explains in detail the Herculean effort expended by hardware and language desi

Following up on that last thought, about how linearity is the illusion: this talk explains in detail the Herculean effort expended by hardware and language designers to create something comprehensible on top of the complexities of today's memory subsystems. It's three hours and focused on how it affects C++, but IMO it's well worth the time and accessible to anyone who has some idea of what happens at the machine code level. https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Cpp-and-Beyond-2012-Herb-Sutter-atomic-Weapons-1-of-2 https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Cpp-and-Beyond-20... https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Cpp-and-Beyond-2012-Herb-Sutter-atomic-Weapons-2-of-2 https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Cpp-and-Beyond-20...