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0 pointsjopsen5mo ago0 comments

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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MMUs allow for overcommit and make it possible to dynamically allocate memory to applications that need it.

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0 pointsjopsen5mo ago0 comments

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.

MMUs allow for overcommit and make it possible to dynamically allocate memory to applications that need it.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse