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> ...all memory accesses are indirect ... module-data is position independent and may be moved in case memory should fail due to radiation damage. I once used
by aebtebeten 4y ago
> ...all memory accesses are indirect ... module-data is position independent and may be moved in case memory should fail due to radiation damage.
I once used a debugger that shipped with a rather snarky easter egg command: "find my bug". One of its more useful suggestions was "Maybe a cosmic ray error? Use smaller chips!".
- PcChip 4y agoWouldn't smaller chips make the problem worse?
- 082349872349872 4y agoI think it jocularly meant "use something with fewer gates and a smaller cross section", not "use a smaller feature size". Or I could easily have misremembered: this was all last century.
- AnimalMuppet 4y ago> Or I could easily have misremembered: this was all last century. Don't understate the difficulty of remembering. This was all last millennium.
- aliqot 4y agoImportant not to also understate that some of us spent more time in the former than the current.
- tanakian 4y agoTrue! Smaller and closer the units, more probability that the particle would hit something useful.