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Re:Proposed New Go GC: Transaction-Oriented Collector by eternalban on Friday June 24, 2016 @07:02PM (#11974158)
Another bon mot from Rob:

    My late friend Alain Fournier once told me that he
    considered the lowest form of academic work to be
    taxonomy. And you know what? Type hierarchies are 
    just taxonomy. 
Monday, June 25, 2012 https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...

Possibly Mr. Fournier meant 'foundational' by "lowest". If not, he may wish to revisit the foundational work performed by "lowly" academics such as a Mr. Darwin in the 19th century.

[p.s. we need to alert the CPU designers that they have been cluelessly using caches all these years. If only they had higher guidance from an infallible mind..]

Re:Proposed New Go GC: Transaction-Oriented Collector by enneff on Friday June 24, 2016 @10:08PM (#11974854)
I think CPU designers would be a lot happier if they didn't need caches.