A friendly tour of process memory on Linux

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140 points | by 0xkato 9 hours ago

4 comments

  • mhavelka77 1 hour ago
    "mmap, without the fog"

    I don't know if this is just me being paranoid, but every time I see a phrase like this in an article I feel like it's co-written by an LLM and it makes me mad...

    • puika 28 minutes ago
      The article does feel like Gemini when you ask it to explain you something in layman terms, but co-authored by chatgpt with nonsense like "without the fog".
  • sleepytimetea 9 hours ago
    Website blocked as a threat/unsafe domain.
    • drbig 9 hours ago
      False alarm.
    • offmycloud 7 hours ago
      What browser blocked it?
      • foobiekr 6 hours ago
        Umbrella seems to be blocking it, for one.
    • 0xkato 9 hours ago
      lol
  • drbig 9 hours ago
    Instruction pipelining and this is exactly why I wish we still have the time to go back to "it is exactly as it is", think the 6502 or any architecture that does not pretend/map/table/proxy/ringaway anything.

    That, but a hell lot of it with fast interconnect!

    ... one can always dream.

    • ojbyrne 7 hours ago
      The article is essentially describing virtual memory (with enhancements) which predates the 6502 by a decade or so.
    • taeric 7 hours ago
      I'm curious how this dream is superior to where we are? Yes, things are more complex. But it isn't like this complexity didn't buy us anything. Quite the contrary.
      • harry8 7 hours ago
        > ...buy us anything.

        Totally depends on who "us" and isn't. What problem is being solved etc. In the aggregate clearly the trade off has been beneficial to the most people. If what you want to do got traded, well you can still dream.

    • loeg 6 hours ago
      But why?
  • selasa67118 6 hours ago
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