He changed the 4 to 16 . Then he saw the problem: the CX3's internal RAM was tiny. Sixteen buffers would eat up nearly all of it, leaving no room for the rest of the driver's housekeeping. The chip would suffocate.
He needed elegance, not brute force. He couldn't just add more buckets; he had to make the buckets smaller and pass them faster.
That night, Aris decided to go deeper. He wasn't just a user of the driver; he would become its exorcist.
He compiled the new firmware. The green progress bar in his IDE felt like a countdown to either triumph or a bricked device.
"You fixed it?" she asked.