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We've been progressively loading webpages for years. It's like the 7th layer of the stack is working its way down.
by anon1m0us 7y ago
We've been progressively loading webpages for years. It's like the 7th layer of the stack is working its way down.
- satanspastaroll 7y agoLazy loading is not unique for the web or in anyway a new idea. The web is in fact one of the last places it has appeared in.
- diroussel 7y agoIndeed. In apps lazy loading is something you add when you need it. But for kernels, it’s the first problem you tackle: how to pick yourself up with your bootstraps. Booting is tricky now, and it always has been. Right back to the early machines that were booted by manually entering machine code via switches. Interestingly AWS virtual machines still boot in 16-bit mode, then bootstrap up through 32 and then 64 bit modes, last I heard.
- freeone3000 7y agoAll Intel-compatible and emulated Intel-compatible processors do this. You'd have to run ARM to avoid it.
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y agoI thought x86 started in 64-bit mode when using UEFI?
- vertex-four 7y agoMore like the UEFI puts it into 32-bit/64-bit mode before it gets to the kernel, the hardware didn’t change.
- w56rjrtyu6ru 7y agoYes, if you call "the 7th layer of the stack" the people who started with it.