Stories by luu

Random failures in compiled LuaJIT code

Hardline tactics succeed in keeping outsiders away from Boyle Heights

Why do so many people continue to pursue doctorates?

Pyston Python JIT Talk

How fast can we make interpreted Python? (2013)

Notes on 'Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard'

Introduction to the Python Interpreter, Part 4: It's Dynamic

The “Double-Checked Locking Is Broken” Declaration

Consensus Routing: The Internet as a Distributed System [pdf]

Fatcat: explore, extract, repair, and recover FAT filesystems

Automatic Test Case Reduction for OpenCL [pdf]

Notes on 'Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work'

Why volatile is hard to specify and implement

Performance: Showing versus Telling (2014)

Patient secretly recorded doctors as they operated on her

A Better Incident Management Process

My literature review process

The Update Framework

RISC-V Offers Simple, Modular ISA

Non-Recursive Make Considered Harmful [pdf]