Selling electronic goods with instructions used to be the norm. It's much rarer now.
What changed? Did consumers stop reading them? Did the average consumer ever read them? Why is it acceptable to skip a manual now?
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I've written difftastic packaging instructions: https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/packaging_difftastic.html
The different distros have taken different approaches, so I'm trying to help with common gotchas — don't forget the man page!
Feedback welcome, especially if you've ever packaged something 🙂
Computing optimal 8501 instructions for rotations using an SMT solver and Racket with Rosette:
A decent part of VMs being faster than AST interpreters is just memory layout AIUI.
VM instructions are largely flat arrays, so there's less pointer chasing.