Stories by luu

Detecting Strict Aliasing Violations in the Wild [pdf]

How do plutonium-powered pacemakers work?

The right way to yield

Writing a C Compiler, Part 5

Zig: December 2017 in Review

Google's Secret Weapon (2004)

The Internet I Knew (2014)

Fixie tries

Memoized parsing with derivatives [pdf]

WinNuke

The Pentium F00F Bug (1998)

A Python internals adventure (2014)

What Happened to TCP Flags URGENT, MSG_OOB, and SIGURG? (2007)

Tour de Babel

Proofing Spirits with a Homemade Electrobalance

Building shells with a grain of salt

Which Python operations are atomic? (2016)

A bogus study on code review

Writing a C Compiler, Part 3

Do High School Sports Build or Reveal Character?