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   linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 23:45:13 JST linear cannon

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   • 🐧sima🐧

   @sima@chaos.social i once sort-of-interrupted a talk at an embedded conference (i was friendly with the talk-giver, and it was a pretty casual sort of event) to demonstrate with some live coding that it is actually completely reasonable to implement and use malloc() on a tightly constrained embedded device... as long as you don't need to implement free()
   
   which, as it turns out, is frequently a valid strategy for a wide variety of embedded devices, either because they genuinely never need to free memory, or because if the need arises it is quicker and easier to just reset the chip

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     🐧sima🐧 (sima@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 23:45:15 JST 🐧sima🐧

     Monday after spring break right back getting dragged into (gpu) memory management fun. I guess time to re-drop my tongue-in-cheek take on this:

     memory management is trivial, right until you add reclaim

     then it becomes impossible

     #kernel