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Prof. Dally, 6.823, 16 Feb

elsj@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (elsj@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Feb 16 14:37:08 1989

Discussing the relative merits of implementing things in hardware vs.
software:

	"If it was easy, they wouldn't call it _hard_ware."

Later, on the topic of garbage collection:

	"It's like moving your data to infinitely-slow memory."


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