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The Thirty Million Line Problem

Molly Rocket · 326.5K views · 2018-05-12 · 1:48:55

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Overview

Casey Muratori's long talk arguing that modern software has ballooned to tens of millions of lines because of hardware and OS diversity. He proposes a stable ISA for entire system-on-a-chip packages and recalls when games shipped with their own boot disk.

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HN recommends it, long as it is, as an eye-opening rant on software complexity and why systems became so complicated.

Recommended by 11 HN people across 11 months · HN mentions 2018–2024

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Software performance & optimizationOperating systems & kernelsComputer architecture & CPUs
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What people said

henning · 2024-10 · Strong recommendation

Yes, modern computer systems are unbelievably complicated from the application level down to the hardware. The consequences are absolutely devastating. [VIDEO]

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ropeadopepope · 2018-05 · Strong recommendation

This may be a little off topic, but has anybody watched Casey Muratori's proposal on SoC ISAs[0]? The video is long, but it's worth watching all of it. It sounds to me like a SoC ISA could make docker obsolete. If it ever happens, anyway. [0]: [VIDEO]

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frfl · 2023-11 · Recommendation

It's not what OP is looking for, but there's a relevant video I know of by a well known game-dev, The Thirty Million Line Problem - [VIDEO]

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