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Simple, selfish, and unscientific shootout 4 Jun 2012 | 05:00 am
Disclaimer I've caught some flak over publishing my "selfish" (read: empirical testing that yields results which are only relevant to me ) multi-language-engine-and-standard-library "shootout" (read: ...
Committers beware 19 May 2012 | 04:00 am
Toiling away with hand swept clocks Meticulously combed-through kilo-SLOCs More and more features borne to bear, but For all continents, a continent unaware. Streams of commits slake developer thirst ...
Website Mania 7 May 2012 | 05:15 am
By the 1840s, a "Railroad Mania" was raging, with stocks selling on multiples of passenger miles, a precursor for multiples of page views that Yahoo stock would trade on 150 years later. An inventor n...
Using C89 in 2012 isn't crazy 1 Mar 2012 | 07:30 am
The first group I worked with in industry wrote the compiler in C and made fun of C++ on a regular basis. The second group I worked with in industry wrote the compiler in C++ and made fun of C on occa...
Accomplish your new year's resolution of being more badass 23 Jan 2012 | 09:00 pm
I know what you're going through — I've done it all before. The market is teeming with products that purport to help you meet your badassery quota. First you do the shakes. Then, you go with the bars ...
C++, generic wrappers, and CRTP, oh MI! 15 Jan 2012 | 09:00 am
Reading some of the original traits papers, I got to the part where they mention the conceptual difficulties inherent in multiple inheritance (MI), one of which is "factoring out generic wrappers". [*...
Lively assertions 14 Jan 2012 | 03:45 am
Recently, "another" discussion about fatal assertions has cropped up in the Mozilla community. Luckily for me, I've missed all of the other discussions, so this is the one where I get to throw in my t...
SpiderMonkey bubbles OOM retvals 8 Dec 2011 | 09:00 pm
Handling Out-of-Memory conditions gracefully in a large-scale application is notoriously difficult. [*] You generally have to detect that you're OOMing at an arbitrary allocation site, then carefully ...
