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by xorblurb 10y ago
It's quite impressive. Ex Valgrind runs out of the box in last Insider versions.
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by xorblurb 10y ago
Seems they have rushed a design to production. When this happen, except if the design flaws are utterly catastrophic (read on the level of batteries exploding here and there; or perhaps slightly marginally less grave problems), production w
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by xorblurb 10y ago
That's why grep is great.
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by xorblurb 10y ago
I'm curious if you can really design a practical API that avoid all the issues the author talk about. Even on something as simple as interrupt delivery to a single consumer, you MUST be prepared to handle merged and spurious interrupts
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by xorblurb 10y ago
IIRC there are even advanced Win32 API that, so that you can go above MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS, ... automatically handle a thread poll! That kind of "solution" to such a problem is way more insane than epoll() eventually providing the
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by xorblurb 10y ago
The description seems curious. I'm not sure what the need for that would be? Retro-compat with existing stores/caches (but only in one direction) + mitigation against some collision attacks? hm I don't see the point. If you
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by xorblurb 10y ago
> want you to pay us to use Skylake I already use a nice E3 Skylake workstation at work, thank you very much. Could be an E5 or a big i7 with more cores (I just rechecked on ark and I guess it's still not available publicly for Skyl
98.
by xorblurb 10y ago
tons of people are working on video game console emulators, and that kind of people could do that easily...
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by xorblurb 10y ago
I don't think there is any emulation of Win32 either? You just have some of the functions; those that are part of UWP.
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by xorblurb 10y ago
On what points you think the NT kernel is architecturally superior to Linux today?
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by xorblurb 10y ago
They can give access to the source code without necessarily using an Open Source licence for that.
102.
by xorblurb 10y ago
If you think of kernel32 & friends, that's not actually considered kernel code. That is the "kernel" of Win32, which is mostly a userspace thing. The word kernel is just used in an overloaded way.
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by xorblurb 10y ago
There definitively are some third party components in Windows, but I believe in the core most is either written directly by MS or at least the copyrighted (or its handling) is transferred to them. Parts of an old NT kernel has already been
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by xorblurb 10y ago
> On some Windows platforms, win32 API is emulated and very limited. hm, very limited, maybe. There is actually no public Win32 for the platforms you have in mind, I think, but a subset is common with UWP. However, it's not emulated
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by xorblurb 10y ago
I agree, that book is excellent.
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by xorblurb 10y ago
I'd like to add my grain of salt here: I can agree about the don't rewrite from scratch "rule", but only depending on the context -- and also only when looking at all the details of a given project. When bengoodger says
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by xorblurb 10y ago
(Note: VS Entreprise is $6000 away. I see a market for cheaper code visualisation tools...)
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by xorblurb 10y ago
Fixing that kind of stupid hashing scheme and subsequent use of only 32 bits of the result? Might not be trivial, but, regardless of being in the kernel or not, SHOULD be easy enough to fix quickly. Even more so given how bad that hole is.
109.
by xorblurb 10y ago
People with actual knowledge in security, and observing the absurd designs and subsequent holes in 3rd party AV products, are secretly wishing MS do that :p
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by xorblurb 10y ago
I'm all for ECC, but honestly you can just buy Xeon E3 and cheap motherboards supporting it. I would also prefer that ECC is deployed everywhere (including on portable devices), but if it is not going to happen, I will just continue to
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by xorblurb 10y ago
I tried that in the AU: let's just say this is better than nothing. Well. Hm. Well, actually I'm not even sure about that; First not only programs must opt-in (through a manifest) -- and that is quite natural given the way some ex
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by xorblurb 10y ago
Forking and copy on write is important for historical reasons but very few tools can take advantage of this model, and it causes its load of problems (ex: if widely used on the system, need for overcommit). Something like CreateProcess &#x2
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by xorblurb 10y ago
The new approach is relevant. NT POSIX or SFU was a completely different target from mainly used Unixes of their time. Now GNU/Linux has supplanted everything (Mac Os does not really rely on nor is administered by its Unix layer), Ubun
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by xorblurb 10y ago
Probably "industrial" low-end pentiums, for projects where reliability is needed but even a Xeon E3 would be overkill. The thing is that it is considered that ECC in RAM is not needed for consumer electronics, but that's utte
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by xorblurb 10y ago
The whole story about ECC ram in the computer industry is completely insane. RAM is basically the only place in most PC not protected by a form of ECC, except on expensive (or at least less produced) Xeon (or maybe some AMD, I don't kn
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by xorblurb 10y ago
OTOH SSD lifetime is rather safety-critical for many users...
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by xorblurb 10y ago
Also, I have the feeling that a "great experience" is all relative. I went to a public engineering school in France, for which the student has virtually nothing to pay, and could secure a job in ~ 2 months after graduation without
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by xorblurb 10y ago
There might be a problem, though. A person can be a go to for a subject because he filled a hole at one point, and then proceeds to kidnap the subject entirely and even obtains new semi-informal-subordinates to work on the kidnapped subject
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by xorblurb 10y ago
One of the problem is when the difference between technical leadership and management is not recognized. While titles can help, without a clear technical leader on top of that they are clearly not enough. And, most importantly, the titles m
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by xorblurb 10y ago
Then they are useless. Send us the boss directly, will save a layer of communication. Problem is the boss wants a unique interlocutor, and one who says yes. Then if he is friendly enough, engineers will prefer to do a shitty job (rush &quot

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