Linus Torvalds Takes On A Performance Patch: "I Relax By Playing With Inline Assembly"
Yes, who haven't had a glass of red wine, relaxing music and some inline assembly....
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Relax-Inline-ASMOpen linkView original on programming.dev136
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I relax by listening to my HDD spinning. Which technically is a lower level than assembly.
8 Hours of defrag | hard disk defragmentation ASMR | Hard Disk Sound Effect | HDD sounds
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KR3TbL3Tl6M
😁
that sound arouses me tbh
He says this because he kind of ignorantly (his own wordage) wrote in machine code for quite some time before realizing assembly was a thing. So for Linus inline assembly is to machine code as python is to c for a lot of us.
One of my oldest programming books is all about using machine language to program.
https://vintageapple.org/apple_ii/pdf/Apple_Machine_Language_1981_(raw-bw).pdf
At the time, even assemblers cost money. I remember saving up for Merlin which is an assembler for the Apple II.
What does he mean by machine code? Like assembly files or literally 1s and 0s?
He didn't realize assembly was a thing, so he was actually writing machine code instructions
He was probably working with bytes and not individual bits, but yeah. He basically wrote executables directly (to my understanding).
As usual his code might be a great thing, but his pretentious attitude is still shit.
"Ah yes look at me I have written, oh my dare I say, some ASSEMBLY honhonhonhonhonhon"
That this is a big thing seems wild to me.
Assembly isn't such a big thing, some devs use it daily (Hello to my embedded devs out there) so why is this worthy a news article?
the dude wrote a kernel, I very much doubt he needs to brag about his ability to write assembly.
I know. He's a legend. And I respect his work. He doesn't need to brag.
And yet he does.
That's not being pretentious, that's being blunt. I personally as a dev, appreciate that.
If you think the code can be improved you should say that, and exactly why that's the case. When you're mistaken you should be able to take the criticism.
Your mission as a dev is to write the ideal code, and being overly polite can stand in the way of that.
To be fair, he merged the original version and not his own.... at least not yet until it have been properly tested.
Proofs of concept are a very common thing everywhere. Sometimes it's easier just to show code instead of explaining everything, which was the case here.
This is a crazy take.
So in your view nothing is worth sharing unless its complete and you "deserve" full credit? So the concept of idea sharing is alien to you?
The idea of proof of concept is not to claim a stake on a concept. The idea is to show the feasibility of something using some assumptions. It allows you to reason about the work and decide if you should commit to further exploring the concept, or it allows you to identify the key hurdles. It also allows you to even just record a thought or idea because it might be useful to others.
Haha go back to your cave.
What on earth are you talking about? There's the concept of a Spike in agile software development which is used in corporate environments for exploring potential solutions, including my own. I recently completed one to judge the feasibility of a project and to help us estimate the time the project would take to complete before we ended up wasting resources pursuing something that would only lead to a dead end.
I'm wondering who actually is out of touch here. You don't seem to understand fundamental concepts and instead of thinking about what a "proof of concept" is, why they exist and what benefits they bring.
Nobody knows you and by that you didn't contribute anything to the global community but seem to think that you are more accomplished than Linus Torvalds. Do you even know who that person is?
If you were as smart as you claim you wouldn't make yourself look this dumb.
Hey brainiac if you're so smart then why are you unhappy?
That's quite a long text for someone to be bored by someone else. Very cool, very adolescent. Quite the guy, you are.🤙
Are you trolling here? All modern software is built on top of Linus Torvalds work, from cloud, containeration, k8s, github, all machine learning and AI, android... Almost the entire internet