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Having the source code and understanding how it works is two different things, especially when running on state of the art hardware. If I had just read the source I would not have gained as much knowledge as this article taught me. Where did this extra info come from? They read the source too, but then they did something more. I wouldn’t call it summarization either, as again any summary I wrote about the code would pale in comparison.




I think "explained" is a reasonable term for this. If I remember correctly there where books of the form "The Linux Source Code Explained".

Certainly I can't get on board with reverse engineered.




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