Stories by luu

Discipline is overrated

Apple2e-audio-transport: transmit binary to Apple II by sound

Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit

Cache thrashing

The story of microsleep

Gcc: The Wonders of a Loosely Typed Compiler

DAISY: Dynamic Compilation for 100% Architectural Compatibility

Broken abstractions in Go

Crusoe Exposed: Transmeta TM5xxx Architecture

Compiler and interpreter for a concurrent bytecode assembly language

CPU feature economics

Why An Exokernel - XOmB: an exokernel written in D

Yacc is Not Dead

Cray-1 Digital Archeology

Why do people write #define empty_statement do { } while (0)?

High Performance Networking in Google Chrome

Interdisciplinary grad school

How Google’s Jeff Dean became the Chuck Norris of the Internet

KASLR: An Exercise in Cargo Cult Security

The Surprising Subtleties of Zeroing a Register