Jason_Gibson

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by Jason_Gibson 4y ago
A changelist is most generally a Perforce term (and as may the case for Google, a similar concept). In the Perforce Helix Core (what the "Perforce Server" is currently called), changelists are increasing integers that mark units
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by Jason_Gibson 4y ago
ASAN on its own doesn't detect uninitialized memory. MSAN can, though. Valgrind is also more than just the memcheck sub-tool - there are others, like Cachegrind, which is a cache and branch-prediction profiler. https://git
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by Jason_Gibson 4y ago
Do you mean 'BEGIN CONCURRENT'? https://sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/begin-concurrent-pnu-wal2/doc... Where did you see that the plan is to bring those into the mainline distribution?
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by Jason_Gibson 4y ago
A company called Violin Memory used to make one for servers: http://www.storagesearch.com/ssd-23.html
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by Jason_Gibson 4y ago
Could you give an example of where Perforce is not OSS-friendly? Sure, the product core is not OSS, but parts of the periphery are, and there's at least one section of the company whose entire business model is supporting OSS: https:
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by Jason_Gibson 4y ago
Could you give an example of where it has Embraced->Extinguished?
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by Jason_Gibson 4y ago
While the Helix Core Server itself is not Open Source, much of the surrounding tooling is. E.g., see the code here: https://swarm.workshop.perforce.com/user/perforce_software I don't think it'd be fair to s
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by Jason_Gibson 4y ago
This forum post has some info on benchmarking SQLite with two different backends: https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/9aa5e1dcffde1336 See the "preliminary results" link.
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by Jason_Gibson 6y ago
And to expand on this, it's easier to add features to a language than to remove them. If one's design requires certain runtime constraints (ability to hook into interpreter execution and memory allocation, no per-process global r
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by Jason_Gibson 6y ago
Indeed, and not only did they develop the Perceus technique for the Koka language, but the immediately practical mimalloc allocator came out of that work as well. https://github.com/koka-lang/koka https://gi
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by Jason_Gibson 6y ago
Microsoft's 'mimalloc' MIT-licensed allocator is lock-free. Perhaps there's something in there that'd be interesting to read. https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc https://github