Stories by luu

Exactly-Once Delivery May Not Be What You Want

Nah Lock: A Lock-Free Memory Allocator

Circumventing the D Garbage Collector

Scalable memory allocation using jemalloc (2011)

Garbage Collection (1998)

Efficiency is fundamentally at odds with elegance (2013)

The Poor Workman

Traces vs. Snapshots: Print Statements and Debuggers (2012)

Automated Reasoning About LLVM Optimizations and Undefined Behavior

Virtual Memory: What and Why

The empirical evidence that types affect productivity and correctness

What is Gradual Typing

Stateless but state-aware types for transducers, using what seems to be magic

GS Collections by Example

Fast immutable vectors in C#

What are the odds the build actually works?

Fitting the modular Mirage TCP/IP stack together

Snapshots from My OPW Internship with Mozilla QA

Perfect forwarding and universal references in C++

Real-Time Garbage Collection Is Real