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A famous researcher once said that a scientist should not work more than 5-6 years in the same research area. The argument had something to do with losing the “fresh eye” of a newcomer and accepting established boundaries as inescapable. As I have been working in processor architecture research for 6 years, I feel m...

Modern computer hardware is so capable that we can often simply ignore its limitations when writing code. Conceptually though, any function that allocates memory is inherently context-dependent: its outcome depends not only on the arguments passed in but also on the amount of contiguous RAM the system is able to gra...