bitcrafter

Uh... That wasn't quite what I had in mind for it either...

Keeping it as a pet is not quite the fate I had in mind for it...

Fair enough, but if the fawn is just there for the taking anyway...

In fairness, the deer population is way out of control, so I'm just doing my part to reduce it.

It's not really an architecture that is intended to map into anything in existing hardware, but having said that, Mill Computing is working on a new extremely unconventional architecture that is a lot closer to this; you can read more about it here, and specifically the design of the register file (which resembles a convener belt) is discussed here.

In fairness, the holodeck computer seems generally prone to go way overboard when constructing extrapolations of people, since that is how it also gave us a fully sentient Moriarty.

Just like they say, you can modify the code and remove for free if you really want, they’re not forbidding you from doing so or anything

True, but I think you are discounting the risk that the actual god Anubis will take displeasure at such an act, potentially dooming one's real life soul.

The IR is designed to be easy to optimize, not easy for a real machine to execute. Among other things, it assumes it has access to an infinite number of registers so that it never needs to (and in fact is not allowed to) write a new value into a previously used register.

Ah! Yes, I see where you were coming from now.

Just to be clear: my criticism is not that the other commenter was lying or being disingenuous about their own experiences, but that they made sweeping generalizations in their comment.

It seems a little weird to compare them, given that GIMP is primarily for editing bitmap images and Inkscape is primarily for editing vector images.

Because people with the free time to do so have already come together and organized themselves around a single Linux distribution for this purpose?