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mikkel250 • Edited

Thanks! These are my notes as I learn the language, so comments and clarifications like this are most welcome 😀👍

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Paul Hewlett

Pleasure.

You might be interested in how linux actually allocates memory and why the malloc() type functions actually rarely fail.

Google overcommit, oomkiller and page tables.

Might make a good subject for your next blog