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by ndesaulniers 11y ago
Hey all, happy to take questions/feedback/criticism. Funny anecdote: while developing this post, once I got the JIT working I was very excited. I showed a few people in the office. Our CTO walked by and came to take a look. He&#x2
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by ndesaulniers 11y ago
You can downvote once you get a certain amount of karma. If you share links to HN posts (like the comments section), and people upvote them, it will push you down the page.
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by ndesaulniers 11y ago
Neat to see; I think Rust shines here, since the use of pattern matching is tighly coupled with error handling of value that may be null; since pattern matching in Rust is exhaustive. [0] "But, the C++ compiler let me get away with no
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by ndesaulniers 11y ago
Maybe not plain English, but you prefer simple code examples, here's it in JavaScript using Node.js' bindings to OpenSSL: https://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2015/02/22/public-key...
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by ndesaulniers 11y ago
This must be 32b windows ABI; pushing arguments on the stack instead of using registers.
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Lessons learned while fixing memory leaks in our first Unity title(richg42.blogspot.com)
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by ndesaulniers 11y ago
> instructions that were cheap become expensive Agree. At which point, C gives you a huge advantage. Sure, you can hand write assembly, but I bet the libc implementation you're linking against has optimized to death with intimate k
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by ndesaulniers 11y ago
> There's none of the it-might-work-for-years-before-betraying-you worry when you deal with assembly. That's not quite true. For example, in my blog post on assembly [0] one of the first points I make is that on x86-64, the st
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by ndesaulniers 11y ago
I'll try and get this building for OSX. For the uninitiated, might I recommend my: http://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2014/04/18/lets-write-... Though, this is written in yasm syntax, which is sl
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by ndesaulniers 11y ago
Unrelated, but you don't list contact info in your profile: I love this quote of yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9339307 I've added it to this page (a github project about awesome comments from HN): h
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by ndesaulniers 11y ago
> Those of you who know what public-key cryptography For those of you that don't, might I suggest my: https://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2015/02/22/public-key...
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by ndesaulniers 11y ago
Internal documents that keep track of the "official launch dates."
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by ndesaulniers 11y ago
heh, yeah, if I _had_ that information. When?! When?! One day, is that not enough for you?! One day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, i
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by ndesaulniers 11y ago
Known issue [0], should be an easy fix. [0] https://github.com/nickdesaulniers/where-is-firefox-os/issue...
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by ndesaulniers 11y ago
I maintain a map of official launch countries for Firefox OS, with launch dates. [0][1] [0] http://nickdesaulniers.github.io/where-is-firefox-os/ [1] https://github.com/nickdesaulniers/where-is-fir
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by ndesaulniers 11y ago
This kind of remark is getting pretty childish. On some level, all technology is black magic or "hacks". With a little bit of understanding, you learn all "hacks" are petty card tricks.
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by ndesaulniers 11y ago
Why does it have to be mutually exclusive? It's more work, but Google has more $$$ to spend than say Mozilla.
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Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge(blogs.windows.com)
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by ndesaulniers 12y ago
Definitely a great read, one I recommend frequently. Nowadays, I reach for ASIO. I think I read yesterday it's going to be included in C++17? Much more portable than POSIX sockets. After reading this I implemented a multithreaded v
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by ndesaulniers 12y ago
That's interesting, I did not know that. While it sounds like a fair amount of work, it can't be too much more than designing lock free data structures. Do you have good references to the design of such structures, or should I f
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by ndesaulniers 12y ago
If you make copies of immutable data collections to change state, why not just use message passing? If you're going to share memory, you're more likely to write lock free data structures than copy immutable collections around. S
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by ndesaulniers 12y ago
Without locking primitives this is asking for data races.
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by ndesaulniers 12y ago
See also: http://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2014/04/18/lets-write-...
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by ndesaulniers 12y ago
See also: http://boingboing.net/2015/04/19/internet-org-delivering-poo...
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Nanomsg and Scalability Protocols: Why ZMQ Shouldn’t Be Your First Choice(bravenewgeek.com)
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by ndesaulniers 12y ago
As will TLS 1.3, starting from page 3: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/92/slides/slides-92-tls-3.pd...
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by ndesaulniers 12y ago
At the cost of perfect forward secrecy, since then you're no longer using ephemeral keys?
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by ndesaulniers 12y ago
Because it's the opposite of net neutrality. It's picking winners and losers. If Facebook is free, but you have to pay for local home grown Indian social networking sites, well then how will those businesses ever compete? Person
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Solar System of JS(shaunlebron.github.io)
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by ndesaulniers 12y ago
For a JIT I'm working on, I've been trying to call into libc from the emitted code, and I'm running into this.

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