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by squirrellous 1y ago
This is quite interesting since I, too, was under the impression that mmap cannot be used on disk-backed files with huge pages. I tried and failed to find any official kernel documentation around this, but I clearly remember trying to do th
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by squirrellous 1y ago
Adding another positive note here. It works at incredible speeds in Cursor which allows me to iterate on prompts faster and not worry much about throwing away unsatisfactory work. This makes up for a lot of smaller issues if you know how to
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by squirrellous 1y ago
Respectfully, the article needs more punctuation. Having a strictly grammar-correcting GPT pass would be good. To stay on topic, I’d really like to know if something like this exists today for native c++ / c programs. I haven’t really
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by squirrellous 1y ago
FWIW I resonate a lot with what the author says about the art of multiprocessor programming. When I learned it in college (from the author himself no less), it felt like a very theoretical introduction to a deeply practical problem domain.
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by squirrellous 1y ago
The free usage gets exhausted really fast. I had a similar experience as the parent where I easily burned through $70+ in two days with two requests in a medium size codebase. Then I switched to free, and it couldn’t finish a single request
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by squirrellous 1y ago
Congrats! Would you mind sharing what part of the design makes this faster than the competitors?
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by squirrellous 1y ago
True but misleading. Like one of the other commenters also mentioned, most integers are small. For 32-bit you might run into integers above 2^23 bits once in a while, but for 64-bits it’s really not that common to have integers above 2^53,
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by squirrellous 1y ago
Exciting. Imagine shipping GCC at runtime and compiling a whole new program from a JSON configuration file, optimized to exactly that configuration.
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by squirrellous 1y ago
It’s about jobs and livelihoods, even if not everyone will admit it. It’s easy to emotional when the argument boils down to “your skills are now outdated, go learn a better one”.
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by squirrellous 1y ago
This might be a naive question - does this approach mean that the application and the kernel is now a single binary, and thus application crashes now translate to kernel panics? I guess now that we have docker it isn’t such a big deal, but
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by squirrellous 2y ago
Just wanted to say that to me, this series is the holy grail of breaking down an inscrutably technical topic with decades of research behind it into understandable language, while at the same time retaining all the necessary complexities an