3 Feb
2023
3 Feb
'23
6:11 p.m.
On Fri, 3 Feb 2023, Larry McVoy wrote:
Some things will never go away, like keep your fingers
off of my L1
cache lines. I think it's mostly lost because of huge memories, but
one of the things I love about early Unix is how small everything was.
Most people don't care, but if you want to go really fast, there is no
replacement for small.
Personally, I'm fine with some amount of "list about new systems where
we can ask about history because that helps us build those new systems".
Might be just me, I love systems discussions.
I find a lot of my own stuff is like this - kindasorta fits and kindasorta
doesn't for similar reasons.
(Since a lot of what I've been doing lately is creating a SysV-flavored
rewrite of Unix from my own perspective as a 40-something who actually got
most of my experience coding for 16-bits and MS-DOS, and speaks fluent but
non-native C. I'm sure it comes out in my coding style.)
-uso.