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

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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 II. Desirable Improvements

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Quote: “low-end versions of the new OS should be lean enough to run on a ~1ドル 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

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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

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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 […]

Using Parallel <algorithm> Without a Clue: 90x Performance Loss Instead of 8x Gain

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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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