Stories by fanf2

A basis for a mathematical theory of computation. (John McCarthy, 1961-3) [pdf]

Performance from architecture: comparing a RISC (MIPS) and a CISC (VAX) with SIM

Design of the SCHEME-78 Lisp-based microprocessor (1980)

Cooling water options for the new generation of nuclear power stations in the UK

Floating Point Visually Explained

AeroSpace: An i3-like tiling window manager for macOS

Testing the compiler optimizations your code relies on

Bluffing in Scrabble

Measuring explicit congestion notification (TCP ECN)

Improving state machine code generation in the Rust compiler

A deep dive into memory allocation in Golang

The elephant in the biz: outsourcing of critical IT and cybersecurity functions

Discontiguous Exponential Averaging. (1998)

Setsum: Order agnostic, additive, subtractive checksum

Laws of order: expensive synchronization in concurrent algorithms cannot be elim [pdf]

Counting large numbers of events in small registers. (1978)

Foldhash: A fast, non-cryptographic, minimally DoS-resistant hashing algorithm f

Unification-free ("keyword") type checking

Typewriter Pica Numbers

Concourse: An open-source CI/CD thing-doer

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