> One of them is even Turing complete.

> figuring out where in memory or registers a given high level variable

Isn't the task itself Turing-hard? Or at least complex enough so that coming up with a non-Turing-complete solution would be impractical?

It wouldn't impact me at all. Without our hardware it is useless. And customers need certifications, support and availability guarantees. Customers aren't paying shit for code. They don't need code. They need solution to their problems. Of which my code is a very small (if critical) part of.

And yes, that's totally irrelevant. Because the mere fact that some people depend on some evil for their living doesn't justify its existence.

AFAIR it was quite efficient (basically free) on pre-VM PDP-11 where the kernel swapped the whole address space on a context switch. It only involved swapping to a new disk area.

I do. And I get paid because I write it fulfill to the customer's need that's not covered by an existing solution, not because some law prevents using what already exists.

Define "worse". I absolutely hated this formal essay style even before LLMs were a thing. All these "on the other side", "in conclusion" patterns with loads of generics of doesn't convey anything useful. And they make it really hard to tell if the writer is pretending to know anything or actually knows their shit but don't know how to write so that doesn't sound like an essay assignment. Good riddance.

On a side note: the fixed-pattern essay thing seems to be an American invention, or at least popularized by the American education system.