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by wingo 15y ago
abarth's reply below indicates that V8 does cache something. I should have poked into things more before replying.
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by wingo 15y ago
Parsing is not the slow part. Fetching js over the net is slow (multiple orders of magnitude slower than parsing). Optimized compilation is slow (an order of magnitude). But you can't even do baseline compilation without knowing what's in y
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by wingo 15y ago
It's definitely relevant here on HN -- a good article with a bad title probably won't go anywhere. A good article with a great title will stay on the front page for hours.
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Unexpected Concurrency(wingolog.org)
2 points by wingo 15y ago|0 comments
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by wingo 15y ago
Nicely done!
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by wingo 15y ago
> New Tumblr > Changed to a JVM centric approach for hiring and speed of development reasons. Interesting.
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by wingo 15y ago
There are more scopes than that: free variables versus locals; eval-introduced bindings; "with"; the exception identifier in "catch"; the function name in named function expressions; argument names; etc. And the scoping rules are quite tric
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by wingo 15y ago
Ah, Alan Moore. I love the man. Here's a lovely interview with him, from "Mythmakers and Lawbreakers", a work on anarchist fiction writers: http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2009/02/mythmakers-lawbre... The book: http://www.birdsbefore
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Eval, That Spectral Hound(wingolog.org)
7 points by wingo 15y ago|0 comments
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by wingo 15y ago
Your last sentence is really lovely. Thanks.
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by wingo 15y ago
It is somewhat unrelated, but you might enjoy Jim Meyering's "Goodbye, world: the perils of relying on output streams in C": https://www.irill.org/events/ghm-gnu-hackers-meeting/videos/...
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by wingo 15y ago
Point granted, though it is also true that financial investors are interested in bringing cases. I'm still left with a bad taste in my mouth; maybe it's a gut reaction to side with the weaker party. Or perhaps I'm just being contrarian.
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by wingo 15y ago
It may well be defamation. The courts should definitely look at it, after they examine the case of the NYT selling the U.S. a war. (Which one? All of them, actually.) I know this sounds facile, but it does indicate the kind of journalism
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by wingo 15y ago
Sounds like a business opportunity for a "who is around you that is within 3 degrees of you on linkedin" app. There probably is one already.
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by wingo 15y ago
The (new-style) minutemen of the internet, these. Though this web site may have positive effects, all signs point towards RIAA / MPAA sellout.
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by wingo 15y ago
My favorite was the mud-robot dominated by a timepiece.
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Are you bitter about it?(areyoubitteraboutit.com)
3 points by wingo 15y ago|0 comments
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by wingo 15y ago
It is important, but I prefer Eben Moglen's analogy: "Software is what the 21st century is made of. What steel was to the economy of the 20th century, what steel was to the power of the 20th century, what steel was to the politics of the 20
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by wingo 15y ago
The V8 JavaScript implementation landed an incremental collector a couple months ago, FWIW.
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by wingo 15y ago
Thanks!
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by wingo 15y ago
Non-flash link?
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by wingo 15y ago
...by Hacker News ;)
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Partial Evaluation in Guile(wingolog.org)
5 points by wingo 15y ago|0 comments
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by wingo 15y ago
I wonder this as well. Experimentally speaking, Lisp does not appear to have been a great success. I still prefer it, but that appears to be a perennially minority viewpoint, not necessarily one always just on the cusp of winning.
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by wingo 15y ago
The thing is, does software innovation happen in companies? Yes, but also no: universities and free software also play a role. Patents are largely a problem of companies buying government. But what about the people?
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by wingo 15y ago
Very nicely done. Using JS to give personalized experiences seems to be the way to go. I suppose you could generate a JSON list of id,date pairs to reduce page bloat, if it matters. [Edit: This is 100 qps. It's a lot for a blog, but is n
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by wingo 15y ago
Excellent article. Looking forward to the next one!
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by wingo 15y ago
What do you think of GnuTLS, Thomas?
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by wingo 15y ago
There is a difference: cookies get sent on requests to any resource in a domain, whereas etags get sent only to specific resources.
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by wingo 15y ago
Very interesting, and evil: abusing the ETag mechanism for user tracking. (If a user requests some sort of unchanging resource without an etag, you give them a fresh one; and if they request a resource with an etag, you give it to them, wi

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