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A friendly tour of process memory on Linux

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213 points 0xkato | 2 comments | 03 Nov 25 23:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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drbig ◴[03 Nov 25 23:43 UTC] No.45805856[source]▶
Instruction pipelining and this is exactly why I wish we still have the time to go back to "it is exactly as it is", think the 6502 or any architecture that does not pretend/map/table/proxy/ringaway anything.

That, but a hell lot of it with fast interconnect!

... one can always dream.

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taeric ◴[04 Nov 25 01:03 UTC] No.45806429[source]▶
I'm curious how this dream is superior to where we are? Yes, things are more complex. But it isn't like this complexity didn't buy us anything. Quite the contrary.
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1. harry8 ◴[04 Nov 25 01:30 UTC] No.45806570[source]▶
> ...buy us anything.

Totally depends on who "us" and isn't. What problem is being solved etc. In the aggregate clearly the trade off has been beneficial to the most people. If what you want to do got traded, well you can still dream.

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2. taeric ◴[04 Nov 25 14:52 UTC] No.45811661[source]▶
Right, but that was kind of my question? What is better about not having a lot of these things?

That is, phrasing it as a dream makes it sound like you imagine it would be better somehow. What would be better?