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nanochesstoday at 5:20 AM1 replyview on HN

It is a simple debugger log in the transputer emulator (enabled by compilation option) which outputs each instruction executed so far, around 70 bytes per line displaying the 3 registers, the stack pointer, the instruction pointer, and the disassembled instruction.

The emulated C compiler processed a whole file ccvars.c before getting stuck in ccinter.c (this is the 5gb mark, approximately 78 millions of instructions executed). I stopped the process as soon as I saw it was stuck, but the emulator is fast, and I got extra 3 gb in the log. All this happened in less than two minutes.


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vanderZwantoday at 6:25 AM

Another reminder of how easy it is to forget how ridiculously fast computers are these days (especially when you're like me and not writing stuff close to the metal for your day job).

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