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9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0

2019313 points340 comments Math & Algorithms details

Note that some of the wrong answers can be fixed with various workarounds. For example Common–Lisp gives the correct answer for:

How to allocate memory

2016156 points94 comments Software Engineering details

Many programmers use malloc() and free() and pay no more mind to "allocating memory", but I often find 2-20× speed improvements by rethinking memory usage, so it is something I usually want to examine when joining a distressed project.

Fast Servers

2016146 points84 comments Systems & Performance details

There's a network-server programming pattern which is so popular that it's the canonical approach towards writing network servers: