How Felix Winkelmann's idea of compiling Scheme to portable C produced a small, fast, embeddable Lisp that quietly powered Linux scripting and embedded systems. The egg ecosystem, the Cheney-on-the-M.T.A. garbage collector, and the honest lessons of sustaining a niche language.
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The Flash Translation Layer The FTL is the firmware lie that lets your SSD pretend to be a disk. A tour of L2P mapping, garbage collection and the write-amplification math, why overprovisioning is the master knob, how wear leveling and TRIM fit, and why fresh-out-of-box benchmarks are marketing and steady state is the only truth.