Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likely due to memory leak

Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by greyhair on Friday May 21, 2021 @09:16AM (#27233593)

ARM's first explosion was in PDAs, not running Linux. SA110 and XScale.

A ton of ARM hardware is embedded cores running VxWorks or EmBed. M0 through M4. Yes, Phones are the dominant core consumer here, but there is a whole bunch of embedded/IoT stuff shipping ARM cores every day that will never see Linux installed.

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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by philistine on Friday May 21, 2021 @10:31AM (#27234440)

And it's always fun to remember ARM's second explosion: Nintendo. For a while, the most popular device using ARM was the Game Boy Advance.

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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by dylan604 on Friday May 21, 2021 @10:34AM (#27234482)

>that will never see Linux installed.

Right up until you see someone run Doom on it.

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