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Hindsight: Reversible Computing

Posted by Hemos on from the step-back-into-the-past dept.

One of the more interesting tech pieces that came out this week has been Hindsight [PDF]. Hindsight is made by Virtutech and is billed as the "the first complete, general-purpose tool for reverse execution and debugging of arbitrary electronic systems." The demos were received extremely well and it just looks cool.

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  1. Re:"Last Technical Hurdles"? by shish · · Score: 1, Troll
    It's in the article, the section labelled "how it works".

    Assuming most slashdotters are lazy f*cks, a condensed explanation: it takes a snapshot every couple of seconds, then when you want to go backwards it moves all the way to the previous snapshot, then runs forwards ignoring sleep() to appear instant.

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