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PEP 3146 – Merging Unladen Swallow into CPython
This PEP proposes the merger of the Unladen Swallow project 3 into CPython’s source tree. Unladen Swallow is an open-source branch of CPython focused on performance. Unladen Swallow is source-compatible with valid Python 2.6.4 applications and C extensi...
Love for LuaJIT
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Top 20 Programming Lessons I've Learned in 20 Years
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Tarsnap - The scrypt key derivation function and encryption utility
The scrypt key derivation function and encryption utility
Why Textmate 2.0 is not Developed in the Open
I got a letter asking me why I didn’t use the 1.0 model for developing 2.0, that is, released 1.0 when it reached “usable” and then incrementally improved it.
LLVM Blog: Clang Builds LLVM
Just in time for the Christmas holiday, the Clang project has hit a major milestone: Clang can now build all of LLVM and Clang! The resulting Clang-built-Clang is not yet functional, so this "
2009: The Year in Haskell
Spend some time to catch up on what’s been happening in Haskell this year. In this edition of the Web News, we look back on the major Haskell news of 2009. You can also read this edition in P…
Clarity - an open source web interface to grep and tail
As Shopify prepared to go public in 2015, I wrote a letter in our F1 filing that read,
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PyPy vs Unladen Swallow vs CPython: benchmarks
Hello. Recently, thanks to the surprisingly helpful Unhelpful, also known as Andrew Mahone, we have a decent, if slightly arbitrary, set of...
An Early Look At IE9 for Developers
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Python language moratorium is accepted
This PEP proposes a temporary moratorium (suspension) of all changes to the Python language syntax, semantics, and built-ins for a period of at least two years from the release of Python 3.1. In particular, the moratorium would include Python 3.2 (to b...
How to write untestable code
by Miško Hevery , Jonathan Wolter , Russ Ruffer, Brad Cross, and lots of other test infected Googlers This guide lists principles that will ...
What every developer should know about time
How to handle time is one of those tricky issues where it is all too easy to get it wrong. So let's dive in.
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