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Tony Garnock-Jones

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Two years ago, I built an IDE for a teaching language based on Shriram Krishnamurthi et al. ’s work on teaching SMoL, the “Standard Model of Languages”, as part of PLAI . The project was directly inspired by the marvellous work of Kuang-Chen Lu and Shriram in developing Stacker .

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60x speed-up of Linux “perf”

The tool is great, but it uses perf to record and analyze profile data, and perf on Debian has a performance problem : when not linked against libbfd , it shells out to addr2line for every address it needs to look up. Thousands and thousands and thousands of incredibly short-lived processes.