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What is a good place to draw the line? Kernel? BIOS? Microcode? Hardware?
by boomlinde 8y ago
What is a good place to draw the line? Kernel? BIOS? Microcode? Hardware?
- z29LiTp5qUC30n 8y agoI say hardware and that 1072 bytes beats the shit out of that: https://github.com/oriansj/stage0/blob/master/stage1/SET.s https://github.com/oriansj/stage0/blob/master/stage1/SET.s
- jcelerier 8y agopfft, you aren't counting the megabytes of intel microcode that emulate this
- morgancmartin 8y agoI really don't understand why more people in this generation don't run their own strip mining operations for processor fabrication anymore. It's incredibly helpful in both understanding just how many man hours go into a single google search as well as teaching one how to get the most performance out of every last electron.
- AstralStorm 8y agoI'm even fine with OpenGL if the functionality is impressive. (Generated textures, models, great visuals etc.) A text noneditor is not.