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Comment by lifeisstillgood

3 months ago

I’m pretty sure Torvalds tells a story of spending days hunting down a compiler bug, only to find it was memory, and then simply never using anything other than EC memory again.

10+% is huge

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seanalltogether  3 months ago

He specifically mentions this story in the LTT video from a few months ago.

https://youtu.be/mfv0V1SxbNA?si=hS4ZMRYqqLXMkxJW&t=526

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