For the past few months, I’ve been curious about two technologies: the Zig programming language and Ethereum cryptocurrency. To learn more about both, I’ve been using Zig to write a bytecode interpreter for the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Zig is a great language for performance optimization, as it gives you fine-grained control over memory and control flow. To motivate myself, I’ve been benchmarking my Ethereum implementation against the official Go implementation.| mtlynch.io
I’m running into strange behavior with zig build run, and I’m hoping others might help explain what’s happening. I have a simple Zig app that I can run with zig build run. But if I run the compiled binary afterwards, the performance is 10x worse than with zig build run. src/main.zig const std = @import("std"); pub fn countBytes(reader: anytype) !u32 { var count: u32 = 0; while (true) { _ = reader.readByte() catch |err| switch (err) { error.EndOfStream => { ...| Ziggit
Six years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own self-funded software business. This is a review of my last year and what I've learned so far about bootstrapping software businesses.| mtlynch.io
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