A review of the Julia language
Here’s a language that gives near-C performance that feels like Python or Ruby with optional type annotations (that you can feed to one of two static...
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Integer overflow checking cost
How much overhead should we expect from enabling integer overflow checks? Using a compiler flag or built-in intrinsics, we should be able to do the check...
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Malloc tutorial
Let’s write a malloc and see how it works with existing programs! This is basically an expanded explanation of what I did after reading this tutorial...
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Markets, discrimination, and “lowering the bar”
Public discussions of discrimination in tech often result in someone claiming that discrimination is impossible because of market forces. Here’s a quote from Marc Andreessen that...
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