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Re:What if the singularity lies beyond a plateau we cannot c... by jopsen on Friday October 10, 2025 @04:20PM (#45543340)
And so much of our tech stack runs on old abstractions.

Do you even need an MMU, if you have memory safe languages?

Honestly, maybe semi scaling is a problem for AI, but for most other software today, the problem is bugs, bloat, latency.

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Re:What if the singularity lies beyond a plateau we cannot c... by jacquesm on Friday October 10, 2025 @11:46PM (#45546430)
MMUs allow for overcommit and make it possible to dynamically allocate memory to applications that need it.
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