Posted by nanochess 2 days ago
don't you love it when your investigation finds bugs in completely unrelated part of the system?
The emulated C compiler processed a whole file ccvars.c before getting stuck in ccinter.c (this is the 5gb mark, approximately 78 millions of instructions executed). I stopped the process as soon as I saw it was stuck, but the emulator is fast, and I got extra 3 gb in the log. All this happened in less than two minutes.
In terms of latency... well... we also could do a lot better there, but as I understand it, even if you do your best to cut away as much software bloat as possible, the latency "floor" seems to be higher than in the old days[0]. And the many layers of abstraction that is the average software stack don't help. Like, I'm doing my best to keep a web-app snappy, but there's only so much you can squeeze out of a browser.