Stories by luu

The economy of weirdness

What happens when you navigate to a URL?

Caches and Lisp: faster list processing via auto-rearranging memory (2003) [pdf]

JDK-4513622: keeping a substring of a field prevents GC for object

Lazyload: hack for causing Python modules to be loaded lazily

Operating system research – 16 years perspective (2008)

Extracting Immutable Objects

Valley Talent

Program Synthesis in Reverse Engineering [pdf]

How to Handle Job Failures

What are the pros and cons of register-based VMs versus stack-based VMs?

The hidden performance costs of instantiating Throwables (2013)

Robin Hood and Friar Tuck

Why can't C# become F#?

Registers vs. stacks for interpreter design (2003)

Java performance tuning survey results

Ocaml: Error Handling

Doerr and Moritz Stir VCs in One-On-One Showdown

Writing a code coverage tool

The Difficult Task of Fighting Inequality with Labor Unions