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This year, the YJIT team and I have gotten a paper accepted at MPLR 2023 (Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes), which is now freely available through ACM open access. The paper, titled “Evaluating YJIT’s Performance in a Production Context: A Pragmatic Approach”, goes into details of the strategy taken to…
Media over QUIC: Low-latency, high bitrate, mass fan-out is hard. Who knew?
TL;DR This doesn’t mean that the scheduler can’t use more than 8 cores. The scheduler controls how to allocate tasks to available cores. How to schedule particular workloads efficiently…
I recently started exploring link-time optimisation (LTO), which I used to think was just a single boolean choice in the compilation and linking workflow, and perhaps it was like that a while ago… I’ve learned that these days, there are many different dimensions of LTO across compilers and linkers today and more…
The groundbreaking Intel 386 processor (1985) was the first 32-bit processor in the x86 line. It has numerous internal registers: general-pu...
Don’t want a big old bloated multi-kilobyte executable with a data segment, but you do need to store some data?
The new Swift 5.9 release contains a number of helpful, new features for debugging code, including an out-of-process, interactive crash handler to inspect crashes in real time, the ability to trigger the debugger for just-in-time debugging, along with concurrency-aware backtracing to make it easier to understand…
How to make the Go runtime play nicely with the Linux Scheduler
In the previous year I wrote a program, running on Intel's first microprocessor - 4004, that computes the first 255 digits of π. So let's continue our journey with the successor - the Intel 4040.
The teeth are not the only problem
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
It’s been a while since my last blog post, but I believe it’s better to post late than never, so here I am!
A look at some of the factors determining the performance of new M3 chips compared to the M1 and M2 versions, and how not to compare them.
Effortless upstream Linux integration, powerful performance optimization, running AOSP with Mainline and last but not least continued collaboration
We’ve been working hard on making Firefox even faster and we’re extremely happy to report that this has resulted in an improvement in speed.
You can build, test, and run the Android support for RISC-V on your own machine.
Learn how CPUs work, and discover Apple’s underrated competitive advantage.
Media over QUIC: The long path to use something else for real-time media.
An application typically starts its life as a monolith. Take a modern backend of a single-page Javascript application, for example - it starts out as a single stateless web service that exposes a RESTful HTTP API and uses a relational database as a backing store. The service is composed of a number of components, or…
This blog shares the results of our performance tests creating OpenTelemetry traces with eBPF-based automatic instrumentation vs traditional instrumentation
Announcing Raspberry Pi 5, coming in late October: over 2x faster than Raspberry Pi 4, featuring silicon designed in-house at Raspberry Pi.
This article contains a basic Nvidia CMP 170HX performance overview, a performance lockdown workaround, a hardware teardown, a watercooling installation guide, and a repair log.
How Netflix’s Container Platform Connects Linux Kernel Panics to Pods
This is the fastest Arm desktop in the world, yes, even faster than the M2 Ultra Mac Pro. And today, I made it even faster. I upgraded everything: Faster RAM, 128 core CPU, 40 series GPU, I did it all, and we'll see how much we can obliterate the M2 Mac Pro. 128 cores—that's five times more cores, I'm also going to…
Announcing the world's first commercial cloud computer.
For years, macOS upgrades have broken Nix. We've updated the Determinate Nix Installer to ensure that this no longer happens, eliminating yet another annoyance for macOS users.
