Stories by luu

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)

Performance Is a Science (2008)

Reading /proc/pid/cmdline can hang forever

GitHub Pages Legacy IP Deprecation in 5 Days

A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services

Attack Surface: Why I Unikernel, Part 1

Indirect left-recursion in packrat parsers

Designing Poetic APIs

Always Use Dry-run Options If Possible

Cache Eviction: When Are Randomized Algorithms Better Than LRU?

A Hacker's Introduction to Partial Evaluation (2002)

Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors

Two Git Accounts on One Computer

Connectal: a framework for software-driven hardware development