Stories by fanf2

Exception safety in Rust: using transient droppers to prevent memory leaks

AMD Zen 3 Ryzen deep dive review

Linear scan register allocation [pdf]

Notes on Paxos

BPF binaries: BTF, CO-RE, and the future of BPF perf tools

Hardware performance counter support (via rdpmc) in Rust

Rust Design-for-Testability: A Survey

Hyper-regional chippy traditions of Britain and Ireland

WordTsar: A Wordstar Clone

Television: It’s Called a Medium Because It’s Never Well Done

XPath injection issues are severely underrated

A tale of a build system bug. (ninja/GCC/Windows)

Experience in Production with Flask, Bottle, Tornado, and Twisted

Errol: An always correct method for printing floating-point numbers [pdf]

Errol: Binary floating-point to decimal string conversion algorithm

P: A language for asynchronous event-driven programming and model checking

Optimizing a join using LIKE by using PostgreSQL FTS instead

Edsac 1951 (YouTube)

The reverse tabnabbing vulnerability in HTML

Plocate: A Much Faster Locate