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[dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch)]

Nemo <cym224 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 May 2017 at 11:23, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote (in part):
> [...]
> > Lest you think things are better now, Linux uses self modifying code to
> > optimize certain critical operations, and at one talk I heard the speaker
> > say that he'd like to put more self modifying code into Linux, "because it's
> > fun". Oh boy.
>
> Fun, indeed!  Even self-modifying chips are being touted -- Yikes!

You reminded me of these comments on a bug in NVidia's Tegra
"Project Denver" dynamic JIT firmware:

https://twitter.com/FioraAeterna/status/855445075341398017
>
> small brain: bug in your code
> big brain:  bug in the compiler
> cosmic brain: bug in the cpu's on-chip recompiler
> https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19809#issuecomment-290804472

https://twitter.com/eqe/status/855533948931252224
>
> This happened with TransMeta back in the day, and now with Tegra. I
> wonder if NVidia has a update deployment strategy...

(Marginally topical relevance is that Linus Torvalds worked for Transmeta)

Tony.
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