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Spinlocks are great way of telling the kernel that you believe in small governments, and no regulations. I mean really, why should the kernel meddle in your use
by malkia 5y ago
Spinlocks are great way of telling the kernel that you believe in small governments, and no regulations. I mean really, why should the kernel meddle in your user business?
- duped 5y agoBecause we live in a society and not every program can live it's life without affecting others
- BobbyJo 5y agoFavor local variables over global variables where able.
- duped 5y agoRAM is a global variable
- BobbyJo 5y agoI never leave L1.
- DSingularity 5y agoI never leave the trace cache. FEEB.
- gumby 5y agoI did once write a small program for the PDP-10 that ran entirely in the registers (which happened also to be addressable as the first 18 words of memory)
- gumby 5y agoI write embedded code that lives in the woods like a hermit.
- tessierashpool 5y agoTo me the benefit of the sorlock is that you can quicken Eldritch Blast. I have an 8th level sorlock (3 W, 5 S) who can do 4 EBs per round if he really has to.
- userbinator 5y agoI can't help but think your comment resembles something like Godwin's law: any technical discussion eventually drifts into comparisons with politics.
- smitty1e 5y agoWe speak of state and State, programs and Programs, rules and Laws. Technical discussions are more deterministic, I suppose, but at a high enough level of abstraction, it's all so much information management.
- pwdisswordfish8 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27638940 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27638940
- CyberDildonics 5y agoYou literally called memory safety an authoritarian dystopia in another comment.