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Objects, attributes, maps, oh my(bernsteinbear.com)

14 points by ibobev 3 days ago | 1 comments

A blog post explaining how dynamic language runtimes use maps/shapes/hidden classes and inline caches to speed up object attribute access, with Python sketches.

A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs(bernsteinbear.com)

67 points by evakhoury 2 months ago | 39 comments

Value Numbering(bernsteinbear.com)

27 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago | 0 comments

A Survey of Inlining Heuristics(bernsteinbear.com)

17 points by ibobev 4 months ago | 0 comments

A Fuzzer for the Toy Optimizer(bernsteinbear.com)

29 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago | 5 comments

A Fuzzer for the Toy Optimizer(bernsteinbear.com)

12 points by chunkles 8 months ago | 0 comments

Type-based alias analysis in the Toy Optimizer(bernsteinbear.com)

16 points by chunkles 8 months ago | 1 comments

The GDB JIT Interface(bernsteinbear.com)

60 points by surprisetalk 9 months ago | 8 comments

Introduction to Software Development Tooling (2024)(bernsteinbear.com)

97 points by vismit2000 10 months ago | 15 comments

Abstract Interpretation in the Toy Optimizer(bernsteinbear.com)

33 points by ChadNauseam 10 months ago | 6 comments

A catalog of side effects(bernsteinbear.com)

101 points by speckx 11 months ago | 7 comments

Walking Around the Compiler(bernsteinbear.com)

40 points by azhenley 1 year ago | 3 comments

Walking around the compiler(bernsteinbear.com)

42 points by chunkles 1 year ago | 11 comments

Linear Scan with Lifetime Holes(bernsteinbear.com)

23 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 0 comments

Linear scan register allocation on SSA(bernsteinbear.com)

32 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 3 comments

How to Use Snprintf(bernsteinbear.com)

41 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 17 comments

Compiling a Lisp: Lambda lifting(bernsteinbear.com)

146 points by azhenley 1 year ago | 15 comments

What I talk about when I talk about IRs(bernsteinbear.com)

18 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 19 comments

A simple search engine from scratch(bernsteinbear.com)

261 points by bertman 1 year ago | 53 comments

Writing that changed how I think about programming languages(bernsteinbear.com)

388 points by r4um 1 year ago | 48 comments

A blog post listing papers, posts, and videos on programming languages and compilers that changed the author's thinking, with short commentary on each.

Nix Derivations, Without Guessing(bernsteinbear.com)

131 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 55 comments

Prospero challenge, now with more garbage collection(bernsteinbear.com)

7 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 0 comments

Representing Type Lattices Compactly(bernsteinbear.com)

75 points by tekknolagi 1 year ago | 21 comments

Ways to generate SSA(bernsteinbear.com)

91 points by g0xA52A2A 1 year ago | 31 comments

Into CPS, Never to Return(bernsteinbear.com)

121 points by g0xA52A2A 1 year ago | 41 comments

You can use C-Reduce for any language(bernsteinbear.com)

462 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 102 comments

A blog post explaining how the C-Reduce test-case minimizer can be used to shrink bug reproducers in languages other than C, using a RustPython bug as an example.

The Universal Relation(bernsteinbear.com)

62 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 7 comments

Adding row polymorphism to Damas-Hindley-Milner(bernsteinbear.com)

193 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 49 comments

Damas-Hindley-Milner inference two ways(bernsteinbear.com)

109 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 8 comments

Microui+fenster=Small GUI(bernsteinbear.com)

187 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 22 comments

Beaker Browser and the Dat Protocol(bernsteinbear.com)

15 points by luu 2 years ago | 10 comments

Abstract Interpretation in the Toy Optimizer(bernsteinbear.com)

39 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 15 comments

Some Tricks from the Scrapscript Compiler(bernsteinbear.com)

18 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 6 comments

A Baseline Scrapscript Compiler(bernsteinbear.com)

18 points by ingve 2 years ago | 4 comments

Compilers for free with weval(bernsteinbear.com)

191 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 38 comments

Waking My Computer from Afar(bernsteinbear.com)

39 points by ingve 2 years ago | 39 comments

How to mess with your roommate (2018)(bernsteinbear.com)

105 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 16 comments

Neat Parallel Output in Python(bernsteinbear.com)

118 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 44 comments

Compiling a Lisp (2020)(bernsteinbear.com)

95 points by swatson741 2 years ago | 27 comments

scrapscript.py(bernsteinbear.com)

285 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 74 comments

Type information for faster Python C extensions(bernsteinbear.com)

93 points by ingve 2 years ago | 7 comments

A quick look at destination-driven code generation(bernsteinbear.com)

50 points by tekknolagi 3 years ago | 5 comments

Compiling ML models to C for fun(bernsteinbear.com)

107 points by signa11 3 years ago | 27 comments

Compiling Typed Python(bernsteinbear.com)

94 points by tekknolagi 3 years ago | 46 comments