asciilifeform: there was an outfit which sold something quite like this (fpga on sdram stick) and even one in the shape of a cpu, which could sit down in ordinary cpu socket on multisocket mb
asciilifeform: (connection via ram slots is not, as it may appear, lunacy, but could be done with fpga, which would pretend to be a slice of sdram to two boxes at the same time, ignoring refresh cycles and managing locking somehow)
asciilifeform: so the maximal throughputs are virtually never reached in practice
asciilifeform: ethernet, also, has ludicrous cpu overhead
asciilifeform: incidentally, long after connecting analogue tape decks to computer was a forgotten misery in the west, ru folks were connecting vcr and getting respectable (10-20G) backup
asciilifeform: (see excellent old thread re: this subject)
asciilifeform: we'll know when it comes when the folks who have skin in the game say it did..
asciilifeform: which is why i think that at a certain point the advantage of a 'bitcoin' which can be -understood- will outweigh the danger of failing to enumerate every possible corner case of the original turd when crafting the ada safety-critical bitcoinatron
asciilifeform: even aside from cryptozoological animals like gcc errata
asciilifeform: decimation has a point in that even a very trivial cpp proggy can have very peculiar manifest behaviour
asciilifeform: (on top of the mass-produced sinclair clones)
asciilifeform: decimation: i think every sovblok pesthole had at least two dozen homebrew published z80 things
asciilifeform: the latter is the only reasonable goal, and the only reasonable purpose of the former is to advance it
asciilifeform: alternatively 'i need to fit the code in head'
asciilifeform: decimation: you call it 'i need to instrument the thing in real time and find out'
asciilifeform: decimation: common parlance, as always, is uselessly broad
asciilifeform: a great many ciphertrons sold by nato cocksucker nations (western europe) were actually electronicized versions of 'enigma'-style rotors☟︎
asciilifeform: in late '80s - early '90s, laughably weak symmetric crypto (even rotor machines !) were still in use worldwide, for instance
asciilifeform: but more broadly against crypto research outside of the castle walls, as a class
asciilifeform: incidentally, it would be a mistake to conclude that nsa was specifically raging against rsa and only it
asciilifeform: (btw it was a very spiffy encyclopaedia and unjustly gets shat on today)
asciilifeform: 'the great soviet encyclopaedia' and the 'corrections' mailed to owners, complete with razor for slicing out 'unpersons', notwithstanding
asciilifeform: (one nice thing about dead trees is that they cannot be doctored remotely)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i want the thing to shoehorn into, e.g., 'hootoo tripmate'
asciilifeform: which is, memory which ought to have been freed, but can -no longer ever be-
asciilifeform: decimation: 'leak' has a precise technical definition
asciilifeform: in that the total footprint does not exceed a certain size
asciilifeform: any that monotonically increases is candidate for a leak. but mod6's test (and mine) suggests that there are no longer leaks in the classical sense
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: snapshot lets you take counts of live allocs as often as you like