Segfaulty Deduction

XLS (Accelerated HW Synthesis) Lecture @ UCSC 2024

What follows is a transcript (with some edits for clarity) of the XLS (Accelerated HW Synthesis) guest lecture from Professor Beamer's...

CPP counter macrology

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. —Isaac Newton (purportedly) Limited though they may be, C...

CPython Block-Stack Example

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice. —Henry David Thoreau via Henry Ford Allow me to tell you a tale: of the stack that's not...

ARM chars are unsigned by default

[Latest from the "I can't believe I'm writing a blog entry about this" department, but the context and surrounding discussion is...

C++, generic wrappers, and CRTP, oh MI!

Reading some of the original traits papers, I got to the part where they mention the conceptual difficulties inherent in multiple...

Understanding JIT spray

Steel your mind for a tale of intrigue, intertwingled with a complex topic in browser security. (It's kind of all over the place, but I...

Picky monkeys PIC ARM

The Mozilla JavaScript-engine team has been hard at work since the shiny new JägerMonkey Just-In-Time compiler hit the betas. We're...

PICing on JavaScript for fun and profit

Inline caching is a critical ingredient in the delicious pie that is dynamic language performance optimization. What follows is a...

Tool teams should work like sleeper cells

I've had some unique experiences interacting-with and participating-in tool development at previous companies that I've worked for, with...

Notes from the JS pit: closure optimization

In anticipation of a much-delayed dentist appointment tomorrow morning and under the assumption that hard liquor removes plaque, I've...

Learning Python by example: RC4

One of my friends at work was fakeplaining [*] that he had been on the Python programming mailing list at work for some time, yet still...