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0 pointsmarshray1y ago0 comments

I've had the CTO who was also a frustrated lock-free data structure kernel driver developer too.

Fun times.

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I forgot to mention that we were building all this in C#, as mandated by Mr CTO.

He also couldn’t decide between windows server and some .RHEL or Debian flavor

I doubt this guy even knew what a kernel driver was.

He very transparently just discounted anything he didn’t already understand. After poorly explaining why he didn’t like ring buffers, he said we should take inspiration from some system his friend made.

We started reading over the system and it all hinged on a “CircularBuffer” class which was a ring buffer implementation.

utensil47781y ago

Okay, that would be a normal amount of bonkers thing to suggest in C or another language with real pointers.

But in C#, that is a batshit insane thing to suggest. I'm not even sure if it's even legal in C# to take a pointer to an arbitrary address outside of your memory. That's.. That's just not how this works. That's not how any of this works!

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