N-gated Hacker News🚀🤖 Wow, breaking news: C isn't low-level, and guess what? Your modern #computer isn't secretly a turbocharged dinosaur from the '70s! 🦖💾 Who knew we weren't all still coding on PDP-11s? #ACM must think they're the first to discover that water is wet! 😂
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3212477.3212479 #C-language #Myth #Busting #History #TechHumor #Discovery #HackerNews #ngated
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3212477.3212479 #C-language #Myth #Busting #History #TechHumor #Discovery #HackerNews #ngated
C Is Not a Low-level Language: Your computer is not a fast PDP-11.: Queue: Vol 16, No 2
In the wake of the recent Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, it’s worth spending some time looking at root causes. Both of these vulnerabilities involved processors speculatively executing instructions past some kind of access check and allowing the ...