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Assorted Rants Tagged ‘crazy stuff’, page 1:

Bringing Architecture of Operating Systems to XXI Century – Part IV. First Draft

posted November 8, 2019 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“While L3 kernel can STILL run on MMU-less RAM-constrained MCUs, it provides responsiveness which is comparable to that of multi-stack kernels.”
Another Quote:	“multi-coring is essentially a special case of balancing shared-nothing nodes”
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Bringing Architecture of Operating Systems to XXI Century – Part III. Basic Ideas

posted May 9, 2019 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“everything in the system should be a Finite State Machine (FSM)”
Another Quote:	“‘OS’ is not understood as ‘OS kernel’, but rather is defined by the apps which can run on it”
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Bringing Architecture of Operating Systems to XXI Century – Part II. Desirable Improvements

posted April 24, 2019 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“low-end versions of the new OS should be lean enough to run on a ~$1 MCU (these days ~=4K RAM, 32K ROM)”
Another Quote:	“last N minutes of the life of the production program before crashing, should be replayable on my development box.”
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Bringing Architecture of Operating Systems to XXI Century – Part I. Changes in IT Over Last 50 Years

posted April 15, 2019 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“we’re using operating systems which were designed whopping 40-50 years from now”
Another Quote:	“Do not communicate by sharing memory; instead, share memory by communicating.”
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Programming Languages As a Social Network

posted January 28, 2019 by "No Bugs" Hare

The Idea Recently, I was thinking about visualizing relations among different programming languages, and a thought has crossed my mind: Methodology I took quite a few more-or-less popular programming languages (33 to be exact); however, I explicitly restricted myself to more-or-less general-purpose programming languages. This eliminated DSLs such as R, as well as all dialects […]

CAS (Re)Actor for Non-Blocking Multithreaded Primitives

posted July 23, 2018 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	in 2017, I started to feel that the Dark Ages of mutex-based thread sync were over
Another Quote:	Another issue which almost universally rears its ugly head when speaking about not-so-trivial uses of CAS is the so-called ABA problem.
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Using Parallel <algorithm> Without a Clue: 90x Performance Loss Instead of 8x Gain

posted March 27, 2018 by "No Bugs" Hare

Abstract:	“I made an experiment which demonstrates Big Fat Dangers(tm) of implying that parallelization can be made as simple as just adding a policy parameter to your std:: call.”
Quote:	“it is still necessary to understand what we’re doing”
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