Post by Omar Rizwan (@omar@social.omar.website)

I guess the dream is that you could have single-use memory addresses for immutable data, where once an object is allocated at an address, you have a guarantee that the address will always refer to that object https://social.omar.website/@omar/statuses/01HX5DRDAZ3YFN7NEEX7NK93YY

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Jack Rusher @jack@berlin.social

@omar If it’s immutable… content addressing?

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Joël Franusic @jpf@mastodon.social

@jack @omar I remember seeing a really cool demo of content addressable storage at IBM Almaden about 18-20 years ago. Pages of data were burned into a slice of cubic optical (holographic?) media. They demoed shining the page of data in and getting the reference beam out

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