Unexpected numerological finding. I'm allocating memory for objects in sizes that are powers of two, in order to be able to manage separate freelists for each size to make GC easier. My hashtables have a header overhead of 4 words. My namespaces need a write access control list and a mutex in […]
OK, folks, I've written yet another incomprehensible essay on the intricacies of implementing a software environment for the hardware of the deep future.
Read this only if you're incurably geeky, and, ideally, interested in #Lisp.
#PostScarcitySoftware […]
I've written another essay about my mad #PostScarcitySoftware #Lisp system.
"We don't need to know, or have known, these people to build on their work. We don't have to, and cannot in detail, fully understand their work. There is simply too much of it, its complexity would overwhelm us.
We […]
