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“Real gunslingers chase down rouge threads and kill them with their bare hands while the operating system and all its logs crumble around them.”
by l33t7332273 3y ago
“Real gunslingers chase down rouge threads and kill them with their bare hands while the operating system and all its logs crumble around them.”
- rvbissell 3y ago> rouge threads "The red threads are not the issue here, dude! ...Also, dude, that's not the preferred nomenclature. 'Native threads', please."
- jacinda 3y agoThe Night Watch: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf > Even as we speak, systems programmers are doing pointer arithmetic so that children and artists can pretend that their x86 chips do not expose an architecture designed by Sauron. > You might ask, “Why would someone write code in a grotesque language that exposes raw memory addresses? Why not use a modern language with garbage collection and functional programming and free massages after lunch?” Here’s the answer: Pointers are real. They’re what the hardware understands. Somebody has to deal with them. You can’t just place a LISP book on top of an x86 chip and hope that the hardware learns about lambda calculus by osmosis. Really, I recommend everything by James Mickens every chance I get: https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens
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