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Writing my own malloc with an eye out for multi-core performance as part of an OS university course was one of the funnest assignments I had the pleasure of wor
by null_ptr 13y ago
Writing my own malloc with an eye out for multi-core performance as part of an OS university course was one of the funnest assignments I had the pleasure of working on. It's so satisfying to shed yet another layer of magic, and get a thorough understanding on how the fundamentals work.
- richan90 13y agoWe did exactly the same thing in my C programming course. Its funny how the best way to learn is to reimplement functions and algorithms that were revolutionary 30 years ago =)
- jared314 13y agoThat is why I love, and advocate, the nand2tetris[0] course. Reimplementing a simple machine from the nand up gives a new perspective. [0] http://www.nand2tetris.org/ http://www.nand2tetris.org/