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Nui: A New C++ User Interface Library
I think it's actually in the very near future, we're starting to go to a place where we're going to have more exact architectures that we interface with as like GPU code gets more common and other specialized chips. The idea that a near pointer is sort of within a like a single 16-bit integer jump from where you are now, you could actually address that more quickly than something that was further awaywhere it needed like the two segments. Yeah, that was a real trip down memory lane for me. I did start out working with near and far pointers on the 286 back in the day. So yeah, these things still exist.
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