No... that is the Cool-Aid that he is mocking everyone for falling for. Intell told you the lie "You don't need it unless you are compiling." so that they could artificially keep their prices down and then flexed the monopoly power to get all of the motherboard and memory manufactures to tow that line...
Linus' assertion (which I agree with) is that minor random memory corruption is very common and that this is the root cause of most 'glitches' you encounter in the real world. If everyone used ECC memory a lot of things would just be better and more stable.
No... that is the Cool-Aid that he is mocking everyone for falling for. Intell told you the lie "You don't need it unless you are compiling." so that they could artificially keep their prices down and then flexed the monopoly power to get all of the motherboard and memory manufactures to tow that line...
Linus' assertion (which I agree with) is that minor random memory corruption is very common and that this is the root cause of most 'glitches' you encounter in the real world. If everyone used ECC memory a lot of things would just be better and more stable.
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