Stories by luu

A Memory Allocator (2000)

My Unexpectedly Awesome AP Computer Science Class

NUMA-Aware Reader-Writer Lock Experiments

Why is malloc+memset slower than calloc?

How the US patent system is strangling US innovation

Disorder and determinism

What Do Linux Developers Say in Commit Messages?

The Last Days of the Communist Party in Vietnam?

Users don't always conform to the perfect visions of engineers

Systems Software Research Is Irrelevant (2000)

Jewelry That's Made Only of Light Beamed onto Your Skin

Why I do not want to work at Google (2011)

Unsound and Incomplete

API Design as If People Actually Mattered

Network Namespaces and Traffic Control

Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason

Qualcomm CEO Mollenkopf Sees Big Opportunity in Server Chips

The Importance of Gradual Typing

The Corrupt Latin Alphabet and How to Overcome It

Matter, Anti-Matter, and the Unified Theory of Garbage Collection (2013)