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Why isn't memset() async-signal-safe?
Really, POSIX? Really? memset() isn't async-signal-safe? How is it not safe? … oh … that's why
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Getting Past C
One of the medium-term possibilities we’re seriously considering forNTPsec is moving the entire codebase out of C into a language with nobuffer overrun...
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Writing a Faster Sorting Algorithm
These days it’s a pretty bold claim if you say that you invented a sorting algorithm that’s 30% faster than state of the art. Unfortunately I have to make a far bolder claim: I wrote a …
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Why recursive data structures?
In this essay, we are going to look at recursive algorithms, and how sometimes, we can organize an algorithm so that it resembles the data structure it manipulates, and organize a data structure so that it resembles the algorithms that manipulate it.
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Dolphin Progress Report: December 2016
We have celebrated the 15th anniversary of the GameCube and the 10th anniversary of the Wii in the last few months. As the Wii's successor, and the brand lineage, has been discontinued in the run-up to the release of the Switch, it is a time for reflection. But, this doesn't mean an end for the GameCube and Wii; if…
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Welcome to Gitea
Gitea is a community fork of the popular self hosted Git service Gogs. We're a growing group of former Gogs users and contributors who found the single maintainer management model of Gogs frustrating and thus decided to make an effort to build a more open and faster development m
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How I Write Tests
The longer I spend as a software engineer, the more obsessive I get about testing. I fully subscribe to the definition of legacy code as “code without an automated test suite.” I’m convinced that the best thing you can do to encourage fast progress in a test suite is to design for testing and have a fast, reliable…
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How (Not?) to Use Python’s List Comprehensions
Lesser known is that you can have nested list comprehensions, that handle nested for loops: