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by wingo 15y ago
Very cool. More code reading posts, please! :)
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by wingo 15y ago
Thanks for the note; fixed.
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by wingo 15y ago
Why can't it?
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A Closer Look at Crankshaft, V8's Optimizing Compiler(wingolog.org)
21 points by wingo 15y ago|4 comments
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by wingo 15y ago
Really, I do. "Oversee" can be used in a sentence as a verb without the connotation. But when I see "oversee.net" -- the noun -- I think "overseer", and "overseer" is not a word that I can hear without thinking "slavery".
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by wingo 15y ago
I enjoyed the article; a bit fluffy, but fun. However, oversee.net? The thing that comes to mind directly is "overseer", in the southern slaveocracy sense. (I say this as one who grew up in the southern US.) What an unfortunate name!
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by wingo 15y ago
I like your site's readability. I also like the body font. It might be my default text font, dunno. But it seems that the lines of <li> elements are oddly compressed.
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by wingo 15y ago
Yep. Fixed, thanks.
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by wingo 15y ago
Indeed! I liked Wimmer's notes on SSA in HotSpot too, though for other reasons. Too bad there were no slides for the GCC experience report.
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SSA and the Lambda Tribe(wingolog.org)
94 points by wingo 15y ago|8 comments
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Extending COBOL with Scheme and Brainfuck(opencobol.org)
16 points by wingo 15y ago|3 comments
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by wingo 15y ago
Remarkable. Congratulations, clojure folk, for a fairly mainstream Lisp coup. [Edit: Also, props to the Heroku folk for doing something a bit off the beaten path. I'm sure clojure is lovely, but it wasn't the "obvious" next thing to work
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by wingo 15y ago
> I wish the PHP team had the resources to do this kind of work, because at this point it's the slowest subcomponent in my stack. That's a business opportunity. PHP is not my bag, but an interested compiler hacker could make a quick tr
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by wingo 15y ago
Cute. The Boehm-Demers-Weiser collector has GC_reachable_here for this reason. Guile has scm_remember_upto_here since before it switched to libgc. I'm sure other systems have their things too. That said, I like Handle, the RAII thing tha
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by wingo 15y ago
I think ceyusa was referring to the elision of bytecode as an intermediate step. Interestingly though, my assertion that V8 kept around the AST was wrong: it keeps around the source, and re-parses as needed. So maybe it's JavaScript that
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by wingo 15y ago
I think you just didn't enable readline. See: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Readline.... Guile's REPL is among the best, I think. It's all documented here: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Using-G
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Guile 2.0.2: Building the Guildhall(wingolog.org)
54 points by wingo 15y ago|13 comments
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by wingo 15y ago
To me it's a bit more surprising: it's a statement expression, containing a nested function, then we take the address of that nested function. Having that series of operations produce something useful is unexpected, to say the least. It's n
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Lambdas in C(walfield.org)
111 points by wingo 15y ago|38 comments
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by wingo 15y ago
I have no love for callback-based programming, but assuming you want to do it (node.js), you really need closures, which Java does not have.
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by wingo 15y ago
The question is ill-posed. In Europe there is a legal concept of moral rights, which does not exist in the US.
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by wingo 15y ago
It's a terrible format (25 things? really?), but I still fell for it, and it's true: math does need more space donkeys.
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V8 is faster than GCC(wingolog.org)
68 points by wingo 15y ago|24 comments
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What does V8 do with that loop?(wingolog.org)
8 points by wingo 15y ago|0 comments
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by wingo 15y ago
Have another upvote. I still use apache as a front end and hadn't seen this yet either.
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by wingo 15y ago
Dunno. I've found with __builtin_expect() in GCC, the code corresponding to an unlikely branch is placed at the end of the interpreter body, even after all the other instructions, which is probably as good as you can do icache-wise. I'd h
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Value Representation in JavaScript Implementations(wingolog.org)
3 points by wingo 15y ago|0 comments
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by wingo 15y ago
What wonderful writing this was. I have been really pleased with some of these more pop articles recently: the Dan Plan one and the Snider huffpost piece being two examples. Very pleasant to read between hacks.
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by wingo 16y ago
I thought at first that this was named for Raph Levien ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raph_Levien ) who wrote Advogato in C, some 10+ years ago. But no mention of that in the README or RAPHT. Too bad :)
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by wingo 16y ago
I think the author assumed readers were programmers. That's OK in a trade publication. Indeed, every programmer should know those numbers.

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