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New comment by pjmlp in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

pjmlp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:33:56 +0000

Which is what OSes implemented in system languages with automatic memory management usually do, it is an OS service.

Oberon example,

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/Sources/Kerne...

Active Oberon example,

https://github.com/btreut/a2/blob/master/source/GarbageColle...

Bare metal Java, Go, .NET, Erlang, OCaml,... with bare metal deployments naturally have the runtime take the OS role.

New comment by pjmlp in "Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU"

pjmlp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:06:07 +0000

Nope, thanks to AMD giving Mantle to Khronos, Vulkan actually happened, otherwise there would be no Vulkan now, they would still be arguing about OpenGL vNext on those committee meetings.

New comment by pjmlp in "Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI (2024)"

pjmlp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:01:57 +0000

Which GNU OS was the point, there isn't any GNU OS, unless we talk about Hurd I guess.

That ABI is known for UNIX systems yes, although it isn't uniformly implemented, and again comes back to the whole OS written in C, like UNIX naturally is given it is the reason C exists in first place.

Which as mentioned, is not followed by every UNIX variant anyway.

Now GNU OS, still don't know what that is, Linux kernel with glibc?

Then again, using other libc doesn't require the same ABI.

New comment by pjmlp in "Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI (2024)"

pjmlp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:58:48 +0000

Android uses the Linux kernel as implementation detail, it could be changed with Zircon if Google cared, bionic is partially POSIX, only the required for ISO C, ISO C++, ART and NDK native APIs is exposed.

80% of Android APIs are exposed via Java, and even native ones have to use JNI.

New comment by pjmlp in "Building a Rust Inference Engine That Matches Llama.cpp"

pjmlp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:54:36 +0000

As someone that has survived a few layoffs rounds, not really, get on bench for a couple of months due to smaller team sizes, and better use the free time to polish the CV.

New comment by pjmlp in "My server is a phone now"

pjmlp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:34:27 +0000

Here is a secret, you don't need containers for server software, we have been doing it for decades.

Yes there are ways to bind to server ports with official APIs, example can be requested to Fable, Claude, or whoever you feel like it.

New comment by pjmlp in "My server is a phone now"

pjmlp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:30:51 +0000

Last time I checked there are plenty of server software written in those languages.

New comment by pjmlp in "The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)"

pjmlp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:29:59 +0000

Sure it would, Windows XP 64 bits was alreary on Itanium, and NT versions for PowerPC and MIPS were already dead by then.

New comment by pjmlp in "Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386"

pjmlp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:28:08 +0000

Which is why many agencies are now delivering more with less, and still there are folks saying that won't happen to them.

New comment by pjmlp in "Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386"

pjmlp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:26:04 +0000

Yes, just like early optimising compilers eventually got their heuristics.

Many still haven't understood that dynamic compilers, and machine learning based optimisations are equally not deterministic, which is why benchmarks are hard to implement properly.

New comment by pjmlp in "Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386"

pjmlp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:14:55 +0000

Xenix supported the Lisa, and Excel was born on the Mac Classic.

New comment by pjmlp in "Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5"

pjmlp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:12:10 +0000

Which most likely wasn't predictable for him.

FPGAs were never that maker friendly, due to the whole ecosystem.

New comment by pjmlp in "The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)"

pjmlp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:14:49 +0000

Without AMD, maybe it would have.

New comment by pjmlp in "Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted"

pjmlp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:22:35 +0000

While Hi5 and MySpace were interesting times, I don't care about the possibility of them coming back.

New comment by pjmlp in "My server is a phone now"

pjmlp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:31:56 +0000

It is incredible the amount of gimmicks some folks will go through, even if it was to stay with reuse Android phone story, Java and Kotlin as regular Android app already provide all the juice required to do the job.

New comment by pjmlp in "Don't use your phone while you poop"

pjmlp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:29:10 +0000

There were toilets with bookshelves with magazines and such, even.

I really don't get this protective culture that seems so widespread in current times.

New comment by pjmlp in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"

pjmlp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:26:04 +0000

Well, I have been well served by I.G. Metal, by working in industries they also covered.

Also I have yet to meet anyone doing agency work, that started as Azubi, Quereinsteiger, BWL,... and would sign any document or call themselves Engineers, like it is so very common in US out of a plain bootcamp.

New comment by pjmlp in "Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU"

pjmlp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:19:24 +0000

And only exists in first place because AMD offered Mantle to Khronos, otherwise they would probably be discussing how OpenGL vNext would look like to this day.

While flohofwoe certainly knows this, for the others,

"Khronos is free to take as many pages as it wants out of the Mantle playbook, and AMD will impose no restrictions, nor will it charge any licensing fees."

-- https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTc2Mzc

New comment by pjmlp in "Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled"

pjmlp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:17:05 +0000

I never spent much time with the whole NoSQL movement, it always seemed something out of people that don't get how to optimise SQL queries, or suffer from SQL allergy, only to reinvent it badly in custom languages.

New comment by pjmlp in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"

pjmlp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:15:05 +0000

I see there that you also created a workaround for the Bologna changes like we did, the 5 versus 3 years.