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Lorenzo Stoakes
ljs
Very pleased to say that I've now finished the first draft of my book, The Linux Memory Manager.
https://linuxmemory.org/
This represents 2 years of evenings and weekends, tons of research, 99.9% from first principles and the kernel source.
There's still plenty of editing to go, but the content is written! 1,351 pages of it (!).
I am not sure on ultimate release date as it depends on how the edit goes, but we're closer now :)
As you can see from the pic, I'm very very tired but also very happy to have finished.
I think I'll chill for a while before I get back to a leisurely edit, read books, watch films, play games, spend time with my wife and cats and do a bunch of stuff the book took out of my life for a long while!
Now I'll go to bed early I think! :)
https://linuxmemory.org/
This represents 2 years of evenings and weekends, tons of research, 99.9% from first principles and the kernel source.
There's still plenty of editing to go, but the content is written! 1,351 pages of it (!).
I am not sure on ultimate release date as it depends on how the edit goes, but we're closer now :)
As you can see from the pic, I'm very very tired but also very happy to have finished.
I think I'll chill for a while before I get back to a leisurely edit, read books, watch films, play games, spend time with my wife and cats and do a bunch of stuff the book took out of my life for a long while!
Now I'll go to bed early I think! :)
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Mathieu
mathieu@fosstodon.org@ljs Congrats man! Such a huge milestone. Last stretch will be painful I'm sure but heh. Really can't wait to get my hands on a copy!
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DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)
dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz@ljs
congratulations on that huge milestone!
And don't forget an "Introduction to Speed Reading" in the front matter.
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Lorenzo Stoakes
ljs
@dougmerritt haha thanks. And I will leave the speed reading as an exercise for the reader ;)
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Michal Å pondr
michal@spondr.cz@ljs Will the book be suitable for beginners who last heard of things like memory paging 15 years ago at university?
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Michal Å pondr
michal@spondr.cz@NetworkManager @ljs I might understand these nerdy jokes after I read the book.
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Lorenzo Stoakes
ljs
@michal if you're determined enough and curious enough it could be useful, but it's primarily a very detailed bottom-up code commentary of mm code with as many explanations as I could squeeze in.
I'd say it's a 'how does it work?' for those curious enough to really want to dig into the machinery in tons of detail.
I'd say it's a 'how does it work?' for those curious enough to really want to dig into the machinery in tons of detail.
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Amod Malviya 
amodm@masto.ai
@ljs congratulations! Registered for the updates and looking forward to the release.
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