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Re:What every programmer should know about memory [pdf] by cbsmith on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @03:57PM (#36423525)
Yeah, there's a pretty famous history on this paper (and with Ulrich Drepper).
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Re:What every programmer should know about memory [pdf] by quackulus on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @04:04PM (#36423631)
Please do tell
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Re:What every programmer should know about memory [pdf] by cbsmith on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @05:14PM (#36424635)
He's been the maintainer of glibc (still a developer), and a variety of other key bits of open source software. He's kind of famously abrasive/obtuse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2378013. The paper was kind of a canonical work, referenced by most everyone (which is no doubt why there's a copy of it on the FreeBSD site).
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