From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Compiling ken-cc on Linux
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 13:42:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151127124251.GA625@polynum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHL7psFXqTYF-z1NhxBekxoTssrBk_w9sh+jyzzJd7srgew+kA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 09:13:20AM +0100, Giacomo Tesio wrote:
>
> I know nothing about compilers, but actually gcc and clang dimension and
> complexity is astonishing.
It's not astonishing: it's research. They want to prove that a black
hole does exist. So they write a "model", a software implementation of
black holes that is, indeed, able to absorb every bit of RAM, every
block of disk, every CPU cycle so that whatever is put in a computer,
nothing can ever go out. And the thing finally collapses due to its very
size: so big that no one is able to understand and correct it. Then it
is called: "standard", a de facto no varietur, not because it is perfect
not to mention useful, but because it is impossible to evolve.
It's a kind of success (though there are a lot of competing
implementations of software black holes, improving almost endlessly:
less and less signal, more and more noise).
--
Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
http://www.kergis.com/
http://www.arts-po.fr/
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-25 17:10 Vasudev Kamath
2015-11-25 17:15 ` Ryan Gonzalez
2015-11-25 17:24 ` Vasudev Kamath
2015-11-26 12:08 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-11-27 16:50 ` Vasudev Kamath
2015-11-27 16:59 ` Ryan Gonzalez
2015-11-27 17:16 ` Vasudev Kamath
2015-11-27 18:24 ` Ryan Gonzalez
2015-11-29 9:41 ` Vasudev Kamath
2015-11-29 14:38 ` Ryan Gonzalez
2015-11-27 18:11 ` trebol
2015-11-26 12:10 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-11-26 12:18 ` David du Colombier
2015-11-26 18:15 ` Ryan Gonzalez
2015-11-26 21:31 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-11-26 21:49 ` Ryan Gonzalez
2015-11-26 21:51 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-11-26 21:56 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-11-26 22:02 ` Ryan Gonzalez
2015-11-26 22:08 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-11-26 22:30 ` David du Colombier
2015-11-26 23:08 ` Ryan Gonzalez
2015-11-26 23:21 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-11-26 23:41 ` Ryan Gonzalez
2015-11-27 0:02 ` Brantley Coile
2015-11-27 8:13 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-11-27 8:56 ` arnold
2015-11-27 13:33 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2015-11-28 0:55 ` erik quanstrom
2015-11-30 15:46 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2015-11-27 12:42 ` tlaronde [this message]
2015-11-27 14:07 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-11-27 14:34 ` tlaronde
2015-11-28 1:01 ` erik quanstrom
2015-11-27 12:05 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2015-11-27 12:32 ` lucio
2015-11-26 21:40 ` Andrew Simmons
2015-11-28 6:42 da Tyga
2015-11-28 7:40 ` Brantley Coile
2015-11-28 20:31 ` Anthony Sorace
2015-11-28 23:33 ` Brantley Coile
2015-11-29 6:12 ` lucio
2015-11-28 20:13 ` Ryan Gonzalez
2015-11-29 5:57 ` lucio
2015-11-29 16:17 ` tlaronde
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