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Software that ran on 4KB of memory and got humans to the moon still has undiscovered bugs in it. That says something about the complexity hiding in even the sma
by riverforest 6mo ago
Software that ran on 4KB of memory and got humans to the moon still has undiscovered bugs in it. That says something about the complexity hiding in even the smallest codebases.
- whiplash451 6mo agoMy guess is that in such low memory regimes, program length is very loosely correlated with bug rate. If anything, if you try to cram a ton of complexity into a few kb of memory, the likelihood of introducing bugs becomes very high.
- pooloo 6mo agoYet here we are compounding the issues by adding more and more layers to these systems... The higher the level it becomes the more security risks we take.
- SoftTalker 6mo agoWell you don't have room for a lot of "defensive" code. You write the program to function on expected inputs, and hope that all the "shouldn't happen" scenarios actually don't happen.
- airstrike 6mo ago^ This is slop. Typical platitude that really means nothing.
- pvdebbe 6mo agoAlso contrast with the busy beaver problem and how much can be done with a small handful of instructions.