Stories by matt_d

HHVM JIT: A profile-guided, region-based compiler for PHP and Hack

AVX Clock Spectre

The PowerPC 600 series, part 1: Introduction

Teaching Programming Languages (part 2)

Launching Linux threads and processes with clone

TensorFuzz: Debugging Neural Networks with Coverage-Guided Fuzzing

[PDF] Exploiting Coroutines to Attack the “Killer Nanoseconds”

[PDF] Systematic Evaluation of Optimized Search Algorithms on Modern Processors

The “TerpreT problem” and the limits of SGD

Ryū: Fast Float-To-String Conversion

The von Neumann Bottleneck Revisited

Comments on timing short code sections on Intel processors

Even more compute shaders (execution units and caches)

Teaching Programming Languages

Bolt: A Practical Binary Optimizer for Data Centers and Beyond

Program Synthesis in 2017-18

A “Post-ISA” Era in Computer Systems: Challenges and Opportunities [video]

More compute shaders

Mystery Languages

Easy::jit: Just-In-Time compilation for C++