facturi

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   Garbage Collection and Metastability [Marc's Blog](brooker.co.za)

   2 points by facturi 2y ago|0 comments
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   by facturi 2y ago

   It works in MariaDB.
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   by facturi 2y ago

   Tearing issue is mentioned in this issue https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/issues/7016 but not in proposal
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   by facturi 2y ago

   That proposal doesn't mention how the union struct handles tearing under concurrent modification. Tearing can cause memory safety issue. Variant A can have an integer field and variant B can have a reference field in the same offset. T
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   Ask HN: What AI-generated bugs do you encounter, and how you debugged them

   1 points by facturi 2y ago|0 comments
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   by facturi 2y ago

   In GC languages, RCU is just atomic pointer update with immutable data structure. In a language without GC, it requires delayed destruction to avoid memory safety issues. Linux kernel's RCU waits for all CPU cores to context switch and
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   by facturi 2y ago

   This is related: Why relations are better than objects https://www.cell-lang.net/relations.html
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   by facturi 2y ago

   Does the range query aggregate the elements in range? If the aggregation operation forms a group (follows associativity law, has inverse) you can use prefix sum data structures like Fenwick tree. If it doesn't have inverse so that you