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Zero size arrays in C
The current structure definition of the ion system heap involves a zero sized array:
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The most popular blog posts about systems & performance on Hacker News. 423 posts.
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The limitations of sampling profilers
Perf is probably the most widely used general purpose performance debugging tool on Linux. There are multiple contenders for the #2 spot, and, like perf, they're sampling profilers. Sampling profilers are great. They tend to be easy-to-use and low-overhead compared to most alternatives. However, there are large…
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Robert Elder Software Linux Operating System
Dec 12, 2019 Update: This piece of software is no longer available as I have turned it off due to lack of interest. The article below used to contain a number of links which I have removed. The content below remains only for archival purposes.
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Boosting zopfli performance
Introduction Deflate compression has been around for over 20 years. It's the format used inside most ZIP files. It's used by HTTP to redu...
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Notes on concurrency bugs
Do concurrency bugs matter? From the literature, we know that most reported bugs in distributed systems have really simple causes and can be caught by trivial tests, even when we only look at bugs that cause really bad failures, like loss of a cluster or data corruption. The filesystem literature echos this result …
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Race you to the kernel
Posted by Ian Beer of Google Project ZeroThe OS X and iOS kernel code responsible for loading a s...
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Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14316 Released
Hi everyone, Today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14316 to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. At Build 2016 last week, we shared new experiences and new opportunities we’re creating for developers with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update which we will be releasing for free to all Windows 10 customers…
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Introducing the Qt Lite project – Qt for any platform, any thing, any size
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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Docker on Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Pocket Watch: Verifying Exabytes of Data
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Breaking the Chain
Posted by James Forshaw, Wielder of Bolt Cutters.Much as we’d like it to be true, it seems ...
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The Technology Behind Making the Internet Archive into the Worlds Worst DVR
Take a moment to go back in time with me, back to when life was simpler and the biggest threat to humanity was Y2k…
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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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Plan9 from?
I have been saying for years that I am seeing the same phenomonon today that I saw thirty years ago when the microprocessor was first invented. At that time I argued a lot with all the computer scientists. They insisted that microprocessors were not really computers because they did not run the same software that…
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X86 Register Encoding
If you've ever look at the disassembly output for C or C++ code, you'll probably notice that there are a lot of push/pop instructions. And if you pay close enough attention, you'll notice that the compiler prefers to use certain registers over others. In particular, compilers will prefer pushing "old" registers like…
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Moving Past the Scaling Myth
Moving Past the Scaling Myth - Discontinuous Transition in Process and Architecture
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The Road to 2M Websocket Connections in Phoenix (2015)
If you have been paying attention on Twitter recently, you have likely seen some increasing numbers regarding the number of simultaneous connections the Phoenix web framework can handle. This post documents some of the techniques used to perform the benchmarks.
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Building a Modern Bank Backend
At Monzo, we’re building a banking system from scratch. Our systems must be available 24x7 no matter what happens, scalable to hundreds of millions of customers around the world, and very extensible. This first post in a series about our platform explains how we’re building systems to meet these demands using modern…
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Scaling to exabytes and beyond
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Rethinking PID 1 (2010)
Posts and writings by Lennart Poettering
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Golang data races to break memory safety
Go is becoming more and more popular as a programming language and getting more scrutiny from a security point of view. You might remember m...
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Ubuntu on Windows -- The Ubuntu Userspace for Windows Developers
Update: Here's how to get started using Ubuntu on Windows See also Scott Hanselman's blog here I'm in San Francisco this week, attendin...