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Patrick Dubroy

Programmer and researcher, designer of alternate futures. I write here about programming, usability, and interaction design.

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Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)

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In response to a question on Twitter 1 , Richard Hipp wrote about why SQLite uses a bytecode VM for executing SQL statements.