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Chisnall's article. A lot of the general criticism would still apply if you replace "PDP-11" with "von Neumann architecture" which makes the whole thing a bit w
by uecker 27d ago
Chisnall's article. A lot of the general criticism would still apply if you replace "PDP-11" with "von Neumann architecture" which makes the whole thing a bit weird. But also many specific comments about C are bit off (the cost of copying padding, the sequencing, provenance, etc.)
- rramadass 27d agoRight. Its catchy title gained it notoriety and then got amplified by human parrots. However, it is a good article to read and understand low-level multiprocessing issues.
- rramadass 27d agoYou might find Beyond the PDP-11: Architectural support for a memory-safe C abstract machine by David Chisnall et al. also interesting - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2786763.2694367 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2786763.2694367
- uecker 26d agoYes, I have much less complaints about the content of this paper, except for the PDP-11 meme aspect.