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Chris Leary
blog.cdleary.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Chris Leary, a Mozilla engineer, writes about JavaScript engines, JIT compilers, Python performance, and programming languages.
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- 1Efficiency of list comprehensions3 people · 44 points · first shared 2012 · 7 comments on HN
- 2Overview of Firefox JavaScript compilers: TraceMonkey, JägerMonkey and IonMonkey2 people · 8 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 3Paradox of the generalist2 people · 4 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 4Understanding JIT spray1 people · 112 points · first shared 2011 · 9 comments on HN
- 5Why programming languages?1 people · 34 points · first shared 2010 · 8 comments on HN
- 6Picky monkeys PIC ARM1 people · 6 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 7String representation in SpiderMonkey1 people · 6 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 8PICing on JavaScript for fun and profit1 people · 5 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 9Why JS performance matters1 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 10Too smart, doesn't get quite so many things done?1 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 11My programming job evaluation criterion1 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 12Simple, selfish, and unscientific shootout1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 13Thinking of dynamic language code as a template1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 14Systems programming at my alma mater1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 15Big design vs simple solutions1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
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captaintk · 2011-10-17
I can highly recommend http://blog.cdleary.com/
raphlinus · 2017-08-22
Good candidate for most evil use of the assumption that char is signed. Incidentally, that's not going to be true on arm[0].
[0]: http://blog.cdleary.com/2012/11/arm-chars-are-unsigned-by-default/
cdleary_ · 2011-12-05
I also did a write up on this called "Mapping the monkeysphere" that you may find helpful: http://blog.cdleary.com/2011/06/mapping-the-monkeysphere/