Register deprivation: spills and runtime under forced register scarcity(rjp.io)

23 points by surprisetalk 2 months ago | 4 comments

Show HN: DOOM in the kernel, or fibers in eBPF(ayles.github.io)

28 points by ayles 1 month ago | 10 comments

JSONB has landed(sqlite.org)

579 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 181 comments

SQLite forum post by Richard Hipp announcing JSONB, a binary rewrite of SQLite's JSON functions that landed on trunk and can be several times faster.

The legend of “x86 CPUs decode instructions into RISC form internally” (2020)(fanael.github.io)

168 points by segfaultbuserr 3 years ago | 142 comments

Intel 80386, a Revolutionary CPU(xtof.info)

248 points by blakespot 3 years ago | 147 comments

Python’s Preprocessor(pydong.org)

375 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 81 comments

Blog post explaining how Python source code encoding declarations (PEP 263) can be abused to implement a preprocessor that transforms code before execution.