Medieval Peasant Meets Virtual Memory
(Me): so, we create this "virtual memory" to trick processes into thinking they have a contiguous address layout (Medieval peasant): Would not thy abstraction swell the tally of mem’ry lookups? (Me): well, yes. to deal with that we created the "translation lookaside buffer"
A programming joke contrasts modern virtual memory terminology with mock-medieval speech. The punchline is that the medieval peasant correctly asks about the extra memory lookups caused by abstraction, leading to the technical answer of a translation lookaside buffer.
- @pokupkabitka / 53608 2026-01-08
- @dev_meme / 7652 2026-01-26
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