Comment by ActorNightly
3 days ago
>but there's a lot more to developing software than understanding that memory is a specific place.
Yep, and all of that is derivative from how to organize memory. Classes are just more fancy structs. Object creation is memory initialization. Processing flow and code reuse is recognizing memory access patterns. ETC and so on.
All of software engineering is not derivative of memory organization. Algorithm efficiency for example is entirely independent of physical memory implementations. Just because an algorithm may use a set or an array does not make it derivative.
> Algorithm efficiency for example is entirely independent of physical memory implementations
This is wrong. Lots of algorithms behave completely differently based on memory layout. There is typically an inflection point where big O effects start coming into play, but at most scales, memory locality tends to be way more important in determining how efficiently something runs.