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5 articles tagged “hardware”.
Janet built with 32-bit pointers saved about 20 percent of its memory and lost 50 percent of its speed; the x32 ABI would keep the cache win without that cost, but Arch doesn't compile it in and Debian ships it disabled.
A firmware dump plus the debug port's identity register name the chip in Ubiquiti's USW Flex Mini, and Zephyr's thin support for it is what blocks a fresh firmware.
A long-standing Rockbox TODO closes: someone swept an undocumented iPod chip's mode register through all 256 values and wrote the missing remote-button driver.
CXMT, China's DRAM leader, is preparing to move into flash memory against Samsung and YMTC — a supply-side response to the AI-driven memory shortage.
Cloudflare cut its 1.1.1.1 DNS cache in half with five small Rust changes, freeing roughly 100 terabytes of RAM across the fleet.