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Since when do FreeBSD executables run on the illumos family of operating systems, as far as I know, there is no freebsd-branded zone yet in illumos? Dramatically faster? Is there any scientific evidence to that? If it were me, I wouldn&#x
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However fast it is, it's going to have a tough time beating /usr/bin/fgrep.
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One cannot build a reliable system on unreliable software. If you believe you can, there is a lesson in store waiting for you.
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Actually I can and have system engineered ultra-reliable production systems which ran over ten years without issues: I'd come back to work at a former employer and the system would still be there, serving. This was not an isolated sc
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I just ordered my capacitor kit for re-capping my Amigas. Anyway Linux won for now, but Solaris lives on vicariously through illumos and SmartOS, which handle this the same way as Solaris does (it's the same code) and the codebase is v
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Actually most Linux users are blissfully unaware that Linux overallocates memory and of those that know about it, very few understand the consequences to applications (such as data corruption or data loss). I doubt anyone who fully understo
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An operating system should never overallocate memory because one cannot build reliable applications and infrastructure on top of a kernel which is lying to the application.
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No way, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic and IRIX was so very, very advanced. IRIX hasn't been in development for almost two decades now and it's still more advanced in aspects like guaranteed I
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What I still do not understand is why people continue to turn a blind eye to this instead of switching to SmartOS. I just don't get it.
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NO CARRIER
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This is hard only on GNU/Linux because it's inherently broken because solving this once and for all proved too hard of a problem for volunteers working on the kernel and filesystem code. That's a hard to swallow fact if one&#
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Solaris, from which came OpenSolaris, which was forked into illumos, from which SmartOS is built. fsync(2) there does exactly what POSIX says: it will only return success if the write safely made it to disk. This is the #1 reason why all my
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I have set up everything to be redundant.
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I have my own datacenter. Works well and has for the past 20 years. Costs me peanuts because I know what I'm doing and how to do it. Will never be an Amazon or any other "cloud" provider's customer.
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Case in point. What you belive is a myth. It's not true. A compiler will never be able to beat a human at writing assembler code. Read any tutorial at constructing compilers to understand why.
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Actually it's very insightful since there are a lot of people who believe that a modern compiler can beat hand-written assembler code. Raising awareness about assembler and how the machine actually works equates to better working condi
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It's self-modifying code, which is not the same thing as metaprogramming, which utilizes unexpanded expressions (often macros) which then get expanded in the final evaluation.
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Or it's time to go back to one's own infrastructure and take one's own destiny into one's own hands, along with the responsibility.
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I get an existential crisis when I read "niche implementation" in the context of one of the most important operating systems which changed computing forever and which is a reference implementation for just about any open standard
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I might be able to help you with jmp.S since I know SPARC assembler. By doing builds on Solaris, you are ensuring your code remains clean and honest because Solaris and illumos are reference implementations of just about any open standard i
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I sure did: it's due to changing the code but not using the correct macro definitions and compiler options from what I could see (I'm on a mobile telephone, on vacation, so lots of the log is cut off). But you also have to realize
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But nothing has changed on my build servers which are running Solaris 10, so OS change cannot be the cause; without additional information, that leaves us with one or more breakage(s) caused by someone in the core SBCL team.
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NetBSD also happens to be a completely different operating system and pkgsrc is likely to contain NetBSD-specific patches.
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That's exactly what I've been trying to say all along. It needs serious attention from the core SBCL team.
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CLISP doesn't work on Solaris either and I've no FreeBSD nor the spare time to figure out how to get it to work. The only Lisp which works is CCL but when I tried to build SBCL with it, the build failed spectacularly. I then went
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SBCL documentation states that it can be built with another Lisp, but that is not true: I've tried with CCL and it failed spectacularly. I couldn't find a working version of CLISP for Solaris 10 for sparc and i86pc. Guys, I'v
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I've left as much information as I could, but nobody even bothered taking on the bug. The other bug was "fixed" but no information was provided on when it will be rolled into the next release, so that's not useful either
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I'm a private person in this capacity, so paying someone to reverse the breakage is out of the question. It's an outrage that something like that was allowed to happen in the first place. If this were my software, not only would I
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SBCL goes straight into a debugger on i86pc and on sparc it just core dumps immediately. It cannot be built from source on either of those platforms.
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I would if I knew how; it sure wasn't for lack of my trying to do so, but I don't know enough to pull it off. By the way expecting that something be fixed by a non-specialist just because something is open source and expecting som

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