Stories by luu

How tcmalloc Works

A shallow survey of formal methods for C code

Reproducible SBCL builds – a month ahead of schedule

How I did Hacker School: ignoring things I understand and doing the impossible

Stack Free Recursion (1995)

A Better Software Engineering Course

Debian GR vs. Consensus

You Should Write More

Beginner Eye for the Expert Guy

Fuzzing TCP Options

Comparing Type Error Messages Across Languages

Who ordered memory fences on an x86? (2008)

Vaisala RS80 Radiosonde Teardown

Intel memory ordering, fence instructions, and atomic operations (2009)

You Should Write Blogs (2005)

Is it better if cities have more compact shapes?

Andy Tanenbaum's Orange and Apple Orchard (2010)

The time before a startup

In Which I Mind the Gap

The Bootstrapped Compiler and the Damage Done (2013)