Using a glibc version that is different from the system-provided one shouldn't require the use of containers, as I recently heard someone claim. Let's take a look at how dynamic linking works and what the options are.

File formats specify how data is encoded for persistent storage. They cannot be formalized
as context-free grammars since their specifications include context-sensitive patterns
such as the random access pattern and the type-length-value pattern. We ...

How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have the recent CPython releases improved performance in these areas?

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We are excited to share that vertical tabs and a new sidebar experience are now available in Nightly 131. This update has been highly anticipated and requested by the community, ...

Background An array of structures in memory is laid out in a way that is not very efficient when cache accesses are taken into account. In the following example, when the element ‘a’ of successive structures are accessed in a loop, the cache misses often…

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Using `mdb` and `pmap` to find the cause of a crash.

The first two meetings of C after C23 was finalized are over, and we have started working on C2y. We decided that this cycle we’re not going to do that “Bugf...

Programmers on the internet often use Turing-completeness terminology. Typically, not being
Turing-complete is extolled as a virtue or even a requirement in specific domains. I claim that most
such discussions are misinformed --- that not being Turing complete…

I recently discovered this funny little intrinsic with the great comment Emits a !nontemporal store according to LLVM (see their docs). Probably will never become stable. Unfortunately, the comment...

Over the years, Google's treatment of JavaScript has changed, leaving us with misconceptions of how it's indexed. Here, we debunk the myths.

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