These days it seems like the vast majority of websites are stuffed with adverts. I'm old enough to remember a time when very few websites had ads, and when they started to appear it was a shocking and shameful development. With the rise of ads has come the rise of ad-blockers, and the rise of advertisers complaining about ad-blockers and using anti-blocking countermeasures (which always make me angry when I encounter a site that uses them). I'm definitely on the anti-ad side of the argument. ...| www.reenigne.org
One thing that's been bothering me about ravioli memory is the possibility that it doesn't interact very well with threading. Trying to have multiple threads manipulating a single ravioli heap is a non-starter: whenever one thread needs to allocate or deallocate a raviolo (a very common operation) all other threads would need to be suspended and (in the deallocation case) have any pointers in their registers potentially adjusted.| Reenigne blog
Recently I realised that, as part of his 8086 reverse-engineering series, Ken Shirriff had posted online a high resolution photograph of the 8086 die with the metal layer removed. This was something I have been looking for for some time, in order to extract and disassemble the 8086 microcode. I had previously found very high resolution photos of the die with the metal layer intact, but only half of the bits of the microcode ROM were readable. Ken also posted a high resolution photograph of th...| Reenigne blog