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So imagine the difference in an operating system that could retain its running image between reboots What do you mean by this? This sounds like hibernation to
by colanderman 12y ago
So imagine the difference in an operating system that could retain its running image between reboots
What do you mean by this? This sounds like hibernation to me.
not have to distinguish things like stack/heap
I'm lost here too. This is a distinction that is made for purposes of program structure, not to kotow to demands of hardware.
- trebor 12y agoOkay, imagine that to put your computer into hibernation mode all you need to do is hit the power button. This is instantaneous because none of the data has to be synced to permanent memory, because it's already in permanent, non-volatile memory. I'm not sure what he means by distinguishing between stack/heap either.
- mitchty 12y agoThe stack heap is a bit of a jab at the harvard architecture in general. I see memristors as being closer to a Von Neumann architecture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture Even then its not a perfect analogy admittedly. Sorry for the confusion! I guess a better analogy would be able to be get rid of the idea of "loaded into memory" versus "in ram" versus on permanent storage.
- valarauca1 12y agoIt sounds like hibernation but it isn't exactly. Hibernation the ram is off loaded to the HDD and read back into ram on boot. With this system your ram would be constant. You could pull the plug on your computer any time, and everything would still be there. It would start in the exact same state it was in before the power loss, no data loss, no corruption.