Comment by exceptione
1 day ago
Great article! I share the same hunch as the author does; when allocating memory ultimately the application itself is in the best position to inform the kernel about the desired stickiness to VRAM. The best a kernel can do is guessing.
As a side note, it strikes me how much we owe to young trans people for low level performance engineering.
Can someone please explain to me why it is apparently off-topic to point out that someone is bringing up irrelevant issues of gender identity, but not off-topic to do so in the first place?
They'll get old soon enough.
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Where polymarket at?
Of course. These are the people that the industry needs who understands proper performance-level engineering.
The commits they authored in [0] match and all of what they have mentioned in the article and this is how you know the author knows exactly what they are talking about and have explained it well.
Puts all the vibe-coders, and the so-called "AI Engineers" to shame. I know that if I ask about the basic system design of amdgpu and drm (direct rendering manager) infrastructure in Linux, a small handful will be able to explain it without using AI or googling.
[0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pixelcluster/kernel/-/commits...
I imagine "we" "owe" a lot more to young men or just men in general for the same, but I guess there's no virtue signaling points to be harvested from making that observation.
It seems my praise was hurting you. Let me praise some people from an unrelated project: we owe a lot to the greybeards keeping Scribus alive. And you are right, we owe a lot to all kinds of people.
To quote myself from another comment: «I am inclined to rather point out remarkable things than unremarkable things. There seems to be relatively many trans people in this niche.» That's all. I didn't know this required a trigger warning.
I didn't know about them but you do. Can I sell them to you?
does niche coding cause men to transition? does autism cause men to become niche coders and transition? does porn addiction cause autistic male niche coders to transition? does niche coding cause autism, and that combined with porn addiction cause a gender crisis? nobody knows. this would be extremely interesting research.
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Indeed, I made a small friendly side note to provoke you. Sir/madam, I sincerely think your reasoning is a bit off here, but if you feel you have been done wrong by me, please inform the admins. For the rest, please go back on topic.
Has it occurred to you how this line of argument would sound if the original comment had been about a socially-deemed "privileged" group instead?
Do you understand that the nature of the group is actually completely irrelevant to my criticism?
Do you see why you would be perceived as being the one who went off topic in the first place?
> As a side note, it strikes me how much we owe to young trans people for low level performance engineering.
wtf?
Just an observation.
Would you have made that observation and pointed it out if they were not trans?
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