H. Peter Anvin

Quote: Serious Dragons There

Submitted by Jeremy
on September 1, 2008 - 10:39am

"Be careful -- there are some serious dragons there in the presence of multiple threads."

Quote: One Major Problem With Virtualizers

Submitted by Jeremy
on July 14, 2008 - 8:58am

"One *major* problem with virtualizers is that they uniformly use an existing CPU identifier, even though they might have their own sets of bugs. This makes it much harder to work around bugs in them."

Quote: Fixing a Vim Bug

Submitted by Jeremy
on January 26, 2008 - 10:55am

"Let's get this straight... You're suggesting introducing a pointless, ugly macro into the kernel because of a vim bug? *Plonk!*"