Over the winter and spring I spent a bunch of time building my essay “C++ safety, in context” and the related ACCU 2024 safety keynote, and on behind-the-scenes work toward improving C+…

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So what is bcachefs? bcachefs is a next-generation …

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CF Bolz-Tereick wrote some excellent posts in which they introduce a small IR and optimizer and extend it with allocation removal. We also did a live stream together in which we did some more heap optimizations.

The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.

Achieving speed and accuracy for math library functions like exp, sin, and log is
difficult. This is because low-level implementation languages like C do not help math
library developers catch mathematical errors, build implementations incrementally,
or ...

I'm wondering how loops of various sizes perform on recent x86 processors, as a function of number of uops.

Here's a quote from Peter Cordes who raised the issue of non-multiple-of-4 counts in ano...

We regularly have to create and manage secrets that grant very sensitive privileges, and so we’ve created a new process that makes it fast and easy for us to securely and verifiably perform all kinds of sensitive operations.

Memory-safe C++ is a possible. I demonstrated borrow checked C++ to SG23 and got this 20-7-1-0-0. People are interested.

Does Microsoft want to lead the of design a rigorously safe C++ standard library and really move the ball forward?

Reverse engineering a USB device with Rust, AKA writing a linux userspace driver for USB device

Conditional breakpoints are extremely useful, but everyone knows [citation needed] that they’re super slow, to the point where people stop using them. Visual Studio recently did some good improvements and @ryanjfleury still dunked on it for being too slow.…

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