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We've released version 0.4.2 of zlib-rs , featuring a number of substantial performance improvements. We are now (to our knowledge) the fastest api-compatible zlib implementation for decompression, and beat the competition in the most important compression cases too.
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A story about quality from the development of the Multics operating system.
You probably came here because your Mac showed a message telling you that software from “Objective Development Software GmbH” (Little Snitch) loaded a system extension that will no longer be compatible with a future version of macOS and that you…
Over the past six months we deployed a new technology that sped up Wikipedia’s backend application, reducing the median page-saving time for editors from about 7.5 seconds to 2.5 seconds.
Posted by Mark Seaborn, sandbox builder and breaker, with contributions by Thomas Dullien, revers...
You have to open the file anyway to make it useful, so why not just open the program directly?
V8 v7.4 supports JavaScript execution without allocating executable memory at runtime.
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L1 Terminal Fault/Foreshadow explained in ~three minutesFor a more detailed technical view of L1 Terminal Fault, please see this deeper dive with Jon Masters.How we got here: a brief history of modern microprocessor cachesModern computer microprocessors are complex machines, filled with many optimizations designed to…
Idempotency is not just an HTTP header or a key lookup. This article covers the failure cases that bite real APIs: different requests with the same key, concurrent retries, partial success, downstream uncertainty, response replay, expiry, and duplicate message handling.
With this week's release of Firefox 67, the new high performance royalty-free AV1 video decoder dav1d is now enabled by default on all desktop platforms (Windows, OSX and Linux) for ...
This post was authored by Scott Konersmann, Partner Engineering Manager, SQL Server, Slava Oks, Partner Group Engineering Manager, SQL Server, and Tobias Ternstrom, Principal Program Manager, SQL Server. Introduction We first announced SQL Server on Linux in March, and recently released the first public preview of SQL…
Cloud printing for retail and food and beverage operations.
When Windows 10 Anniversary Update (AU) was shipped, the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) was still far from complete, and was known to have many
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pgDash is an in-depth monitoring solution designed specifically for PostgreSQL deployments. pgDash shows you information and metrics about every aspect of your PostgreSQL database server, collected using the open-source tool pgmetrics.
A storage appliance that shipped before AVX2 existed now runs Google's Gemma 4 26B in my basement, no GPU. Here's how we got a modern MoE model onto a CPU older than the instructions its inference engine assumed were there.
