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In the fall of 2000, I took my first engineering class: ECE 352 , an entry-level digital design class for first-year computer engineers. It was standing room only, filled with waitlisted students who would find seats later in the semester as people dropped out. We had been warned in orientation that half of us…
The usual build-versus-buy rules for applications don't apply to integration
A step-by-step walkthrough of the Billion Row Challenge, taking a Parallel Java Streams aggregation from 71 seconds down to 1.7 with SIMD and tuning.
A huge milestone towards Elixir and Machine Learning has been reached with the release of Nx v0.1
Not long ago I needed to benchmark the performance of Golang on a many-core machine. I took several of the benchmarks that are bundled with the Go source code, copied them, and modified them to run on all available threads.
Go 1.25 introduces experimental support for encoding/json/jsontext and encoding/json/v2 packages.
npm's impact analysis of the attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens and additional findings.
Posted by Andrew Walbran, Android Rust Team Last year we wrote about how moving native code in Android from C++ to Rust has resulted in ...
You can just prove things, apparently.
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Matthias Felleisen jested "Why are you still using CL when Scrbl/Racket is so much better :-)" ? My response was as follows: Dear Matthias, you are right Racket is so much better in so many dimensions. I use Lisp because I just can't bear programming in a language without proper syntactic…
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
An exploration into C++ memory throughput performance.
piccolo is an interpreter for the Lua language written in pure, mostly safe Rust with an eye towards safe sandboxing and resiliency. It uses gc-arena for its garbage collection system, and in fact gc-arena was originally created as part of piccolo .
As the man said, for every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong.
Link time optimization (LTO) is LLVM's way of implementing whole-program optimization. Cross-language LTO is a new feature in the Rust compiler that enables LLVM's link time optimization to be performed across a mixed C/C++/Rust codebase.
An investigation into The Games; Winter Challenge
Vulnerability discovery has always been gated by elite attention. Elite attention is now abundant. What happens next?
Occasional writings about Haskell.
As the final model release of GPT-2’s staged release, we’re releasing the largest version (1.5B parameters) of GPT-2 along with code and model weights to facilitate detection of outputs of GPT-2 models. While there have been larger language models released since August, we’ve continued with our original staged release…
When I ask people at trendy big tech companies why algorithms quizzes are mandatory, the most common answer I get is something like "we have so much scale, we can't afford to have someone accidentally write an O(n^2) algorithm and bring the site down" 1 . One thing I find funny about this is, even though a decent…
Discover how recent improvements to wireguard-go boost Tailscale client performance on Linux. Learn about key changes, testing methods, and results showing enhanced throughput and efficiency.
Several months ago, PHP officially announced the end-of-life forPHP5.
A practical guide to creating and maintaining powerful megamerge workflows in Jujutsu for faster, conflict-free development.
This year Java hit an incredible milestone and reached the grand old age of 25 years. We celebrated its jubilee by running a special online Java day event, where lots of expert speakers shared their e
