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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.

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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...

They'll get old soon enough.

Where polymarket at?

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.

  > virtue signaling points

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.

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?

> 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?

I am inclined to rather point out remarkable things than unremarkable things. There seems to be relatively many trans people in this niche.

If I see a soil that is unusually rich in iron, I would be more inclined to point that out. If I come across a piece of soil that is as average as the 98% of the surrounding lands I wouldn't be less likely to point out "hey look, this soil is unremarkable average."

Also, it was just an aside from me. It is unclear what your problem is exactly, and I am also not sure if a tech forum could provide counsel for that.

Man that's such a terrible analogy. In your analogy of course you wouldn't point out the normal soil because it didn't do anything remarkable. But in this case people did do something remarkable (unrelated to their attributes) but it feels like you only pointed out certain attributes about them because they were trans. In fact your analogy is a great illustration of one of the critiques that a lot of people have with the DEI movement because you are saying that you would point out the soil simply for having specific attributes rather than what it actually achieves.

> It is unclear what your problem is exactly, and I am also not sure if a tech forum could provide counsel for that.

So now you are making this personal and trying to say that I have some sort of problem? That's very interesting and I think you might be projecting here a little bit

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