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Introduction to Metaprogramming in Nim
Metaprogramming is the writing of computer programs with the ability to treat programs as their data. It means that a program could be designed to read, generate, analyse and/or transform other programs, and even modify itself while running.
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V8: Behind the Scenes (December Edition)
Personal website of Benedikt Meurer, JavaScript Engine Hacker and Programming Language Enthusiast.
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How undefined signed overflow enables optimizations in GCC
Signed integers are not allowed to overflow in C and C++, and this helps compilers generate better code. I was interested in how GCC is tak...
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Writing a compiler in Ruby, bottom up (2008)
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Technical Issues of Separation in Lisp Function Cells and Value Cells (1988)
This paper appears in Lisp and Symbolic Computation , Volume 1, No. 1, June 1988, pp81-101.
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Wizards and warriors, part one
A common problem I see in object-oriented design is: A wizard is a kind of player. A warrior is a kind of player. A staff is a kind of weapon. A sword is a kind of weapon. A player has a weapon. Bu…
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GC support in Rust: API design
Recently we (Felix, Niko, and I) have been working on getting compiler-level GC support for Rust. The plan is to provide a base set of APIs and …
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cgo is not Go
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use cgo.” Now they have two problems.