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by shuffel 5y ago
Thanks bxparks for the heads up! I haven't had a good experience upgrading macOS in the past either. I appreciate all the helpful advice on HN.
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by shuffel 5y ago
Thanks for your reply. I feel a bit silly now. I just learned that I have Firefox ESR, which is different from Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/where-find-release-note... https://www.mozill
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by shuffel 5y ago
Upgrading or switching the OS is a major undertaking. I appreciate that Mozilla has fewer resources than Google, but having the latest version of FireFox working only on macOS versions released within the past two years is unnecessarily res
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by shuffel 5y ago
Mozilla cuts off support for macOS releases much too early in my opinion. I'm running macOS 10.14 Mojave which was released in 2018 and it only supports FireFox 91. The latest version of FireFox is 96. I can't find a definitive st
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by shuffel 5y ago
Strings appear to be represented as arrays with elements which are 4 bytes in size, with 30 numeric bits for each character: https://github.com/FastVM/minivm/blob/4906256b2dc16e227cad7e... https://
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by shuffel 5y ago
Years ago I wrote a small toy interpreter based on predereferenced computed gotos with surprisingly good speed. For very small programs without dynamic data allocation churn it could run as fast as 3 times slower than compiled code instead
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by shuffel 5y ago
How are strings represented in the VM? Is there a benchmark for string operations?
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by shuffel 5y ago
For whatever reason I can never remember the syntax of <(command) and end up "rediscovering" it every year. It's seldom used but when it's needed it's rather elegant. Another somewhat related useful bash feature
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by shuffel 5y ago
Bazel is great if you're at Google scale, but I agree with the article. Too complex and bloated for my liking.