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by evmar 6y ago
I haven't touched it in many years, but: I think (a) it's still possible, per https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs... . (b) Creating new .so files that shadow functions
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by evmar 6y ago
I responded to this in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24619216
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by evmar 6y ago
I don't recall measuring it in particular. Some thoughts on it anyway: 1. Even if you take a single binary and split it into multiple objects, you still must do the same "linking" work of resolving where functions point to.
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by evmar 6y ago
I wrote a sibling reply to this with some links on how I did this for the Chrome build, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24617526 .
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by evmar 6y ago
At one point I got Chrome (a genuinely massive C++ project) to compile+link in under six seconds: http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/02/ninja.h... One of the big tricks not mentioned
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by evmar 6y ago
From the site: "Stop paying for new domains" Also from the site: "Buy Handshake coins" :(
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by evmar 6y ago
My favorite story to tell in this area: many years ago in the early days of Chrome, there was some logic that followed HTTP redirects that had a cap on how many redirects to follow before giving up. (The rationale here is that if you hit t
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by evmar 6y ago
That is really disappointing to read. We put a lot of effort into making Chrome start quickly. Back when I was responsible for Linux Chrome, I gave a lighting talk at the Ubuntu Developer Summit about it, and demoed Chrome starting faster
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by evmar 6y ago
(This comment is a nearly flawless example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law , well done!)
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by evmar 6y ago
I can't comment on the "true" motivation for releasing these documents, but I noticed the same site includes https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/oneversion/ which is a very Google-interna
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by evmar 6y ago
For those responding to the title or first half of the article, you are missing the point! Edit: the comments that are reacting to the article's content are from people who didn't read it to the end, wow.
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by evmar 6y ago
I don't know about Columbus in particular, but most famous people like him have people from different countries continuously edit warring over which country gets to "claim" him. I'll check the talk page ... yep, half th
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by evmar 6y ago
One of the most commonly repeated pieces of advice I got about having children from other parents is that "you will never feel ready for it".
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by evmar 6y ago
I'm working on a shell that does this, for exactly the reasons you gave and more. It doesn't work well enough to announce here, but you can find an index of shells (including others that have had this idea) here: https:/&#x
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by evmar 6y ago
I found that, as a person who (sometimes) creates things, my attitude towards other people who create things has significantly shifted. When I was younger I would just see the fault -- the typos, the narcissism, the pointlessness, the alrea
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by evmar 6y ago
That is also what I immediately noticed. The graphs showed that the slow runs were around ~4s (p50) or ~7s (p90), and then also mention that Linux was 5-10x faster. This would mean the same operations on Linux are somewhere around 1s in t
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by evmar 6y ago
If you have the time to read one more thing, I recommend https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham....
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by evmar 6y ago
Alternatively, it's extremely sad, because it means we haven't made progress on the issues of 50 years ago.
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by evmar 6y ago
MLK gave a speech at Silicon Valley's own Stanford and touched on this subject (the same one with the "riot is the language of the unheard" quote you might have seen circulating). https://www.crmvet.org/docs&#
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by evmar 6y ago
I have been able to write some free software as part of my paying job. For some companies this is a real strategy, that is explained by companies commoditizing their complements [1]. [1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002&
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by evmar 6y ago
Ninja originally used `.d` files as well (it was built while incrementally replacing a make-based system so it did many things like make). My recollection is that it was already faster than make without the deps log, but it is almost certa
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by evmar 6y ago
The first attempt at Windows tried to do some memory-resident file watching thing that I eventually rejected as too complex. We circled a few more times on different approaches and the final Windows approach is pretty complex. Look at the
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by evmar 6y ago
I know it's probably not "Russian bots", but... Two of the comments post the same CDC 2017 list, and both come from twitter accounts with 0 posts (one is 100% retweets of anti-"liberal" content). I'm never sur
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by evmar 6y ago
To tie this closer to what we do: I often think of another NYT article in a similar vein, where they profiled people in the Bay Area whose net worth was in the ~$10m range. This is an enormous amount of money and you'd think nobody wou
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by evmar 6y ago
I used to have some trouble with this one but if you think about it it's the same as "why would anyone want a dollar, it's just a piece of paper". The answer is that for literally anything, if you can exchange the thing
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by evmar 6y ago
Back when Chrome was based on WebKit, my recollection is that WebKit was vaguely half the code. The other half was all the stuff that browsers do that's easy to overlook -- the network stack, process management, 2d graphics engine, co
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by evmar 6y ago
The author had a followup post about this that I found more interesting: https://blog.nelhage.com/post/systems-that-defy-understandin...
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by evmar 7y ago
This blog post, and your reply, both touch on how difficult it is to measure performance. But then in the same where you point out that there are many different valid ways you could measure performance, you also make the broad claim that &
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by evmar 7y ago
Not quite the same thing but this well-regarded nonprofit gives cash instead of alternatives, and their about page talks a bit (with some citations for you to read more) about why this is more effective than alternatives: https:/&#x2F
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by evmar 7y ago
If you look at old LiveJournal the short posting form felt a lot like twitter. Here's what LJ content looked like on the day of that Flickr post: https://brad.livejournal.com/2000/05/31/ (Edit: switched

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