Negative .Net myths busted
There are a lot of negative myths about .net which people tend to use to favor the traditional languages like C++ above .net. I’ve busted the ones I read frequently: The GC is really slow malloc is way...
View ArticleIntroducing Paradox
Kaja Fumei and I are currently developing a light-weight rich jit-ed language called Paradox. The main feature of Paradox will be that it will be very light weight in memory and startup time. It will...
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Softwire
Softwire Softwire is a library to generate assembly runtime for different kind of processors. It has a great API. Very usefull for JIT alikes. Kaja is converting it for use in C for the Paradox JIT....
View ArticleShiftings in Architectures
Cell, the hype Sony is working on a new kind of processor which they call Cell. A single Cell processor is said to have a 1/75th of the power of the Blue Gene/L supercomputer in teraflops, and that for...
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Syslets and other untrusted kernelspace programming
In the wake of creating true async. IO in the linux kernel Ingo worked on so called syslets. A syslet is nothing more than one async system call to chain together a few arbitrary system calls. An...
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