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I am particularly interested in the rapid and steady growth of "garbage", among rubbish, trash and junk. What does this indicate? An evolution of English?
by tianqi 1y ago
I am particularly interested in the rapid and steady growth of "garbage", among rubbish, trash and junk. What does this indicate? An evolution of English?
- inopinatus 1y agoThe GPU access ring buffer aka GARB is expired after a set duration i.e. when garb_age exceeds the garb_age_dump value.
- mlok 1y agoThe band Garbage became popular around 1995. Would be interesting to look for any correlation.
- TheSilva 1y agoGiven that it started appearing in 1995, I will assume it is because of the influence of the movie Hackers in the developers of the kernel source.
- mcosta 1y agoSome kind Garbage Collection inside the kernel?
- plq 1y agoAFAICT the consensus is to say that an uninitialized variable (eg. int i;) has "garbage value". I'd say it's rather a technical term than profanity.
- shakna 1y agoA mindless grep. It's probably picking up the massive amount of effort that has gone into link-time garbage collection, and socket inflight garbage, and so many, many others.