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by FpUser 1378 days ago
>"when all languages were close to the metal"

That writing was 1974, Lisp had already existed.

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And even caches. Though we called it "core", back then. Main memory was disk, tape, or drum, and cache misses caused page faults, if you were fortunate, or you had to roll in overlays yourself. Nowadays RAM is as inaccessible as disk was then, and you swap 64-byte pages, sometimes with network negotiations with remote (NUMA) cores, all in hardware.