Abstract In the Bubbline project we are trying to build readline-like semantics on top of Charm’s Bubbletea. As of Bubbletea v0.23, we discovered this is currently impossible to do in a way that preserves input continuity reliably across readline invocations. This result is general. Any Bubbletea-based program or …| dr knz @ work
Twelve years ago, at my first job at a University, my supervisor told my colleague and I: “I am writing a book about finite state automata. I want an interactive tool to show people what I’m doing.” So my colleague and I built Vaucanson. During that project I discovered …| dr knz @ work
Note The latest version of this document can be found online at https://dr-knz.net/go-errors-vs-exceptions-2020.html. Alternate formats: Source, PDF. Introduction Back in 2018, we compared empirically the performance overheads of Go and C++ with regards to the low-level calling convention: to pass arguments, to return multiple values, and …| dr knz @ work
Note The latest version of this document can be found online at https://dr-knz.net/go-executable-size-visualization-with-d3-2021.html. Alternate formats: Source, PDF. Note After a lively discussion on Hacker News and input from Russ Cox, the conclusions in the analysis below were reworded to avoid the notion of “non-useful bytes”. The …| dr knz @ work