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by ctangent 10y ago
A tremendous amount of effort has gone into the CLR towards optimizing interface dispatch, because at one time it was slow. Interface dispatches are cached at the call site to avoid real virtual (vtable) dispatch, just like a Smalltalk or
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by ctangent 10y ago
The standard solution is that the write barrier updates a card table, which generally reserves a bit for every page. When it comes time to mark through old-to-young pointers, the collector scans the card table - if it sees a bit set in the
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by ctangent 10y ago
I'm a longtime Emacs user and I dabble with atom and code. The main thing that I get out of GUI editors is that extensions generally just work . I spent a lot of time debugging emacs extensions to the point that I kind of expected ext
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by ctangent 10y ago
UWP C# apps are AOT compiled, the startup hit isn't that bad nowadays.
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by ctangent 11y ago
I got one of these in November and primarily run Ubuntu on it, and I'm really happy with it. The only thing that (really) sucks is that Suspend/Resume is broken, so you get a kernel panic if you shut the lid. Otherwise, it's
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by ctangent 11y ago
I'm running Ubuntu 15.04 and I haven't tried any of those things. My suspend/resume experience isn't like that blog, though - what happens to me is that I shut the lid, the os "suspends", I open the lid again a
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by ctangent 11y ago
Maybe it's a good time to share this - I just bought a brand-new Dell XPS 15 and it runs Ubuntu like a dream. The only problem I've had is that suspend/resume (i.e. closing the lid) causes a kernel panic, but I've heard