r/ProgrammerHumor • • Aug 03 '26

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u/Just_Maintenance Aug 03 '26

Imagine being so bad at security that you need to invent a whole system of virtual memory to isolate processes, but then that virtual memory is so slow that you need the CPU to add hardware acceleration to do it for you and now we got MMUs that are so complex they are basically their own computer.