Andy Wingo
Hacker.
North Carolina (USA)
I enjoy practicing aikido in my free time – and hacking, of course!
POSTS
lightening run-time code generation
The upcoming Guile 3 release will have just-in-time native code generation. Finally, amirite? There’s lots that I’d like to share about that and I n
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bigint shipping in firefox!
I am delighted to share with folks the results of a project I have been helping out on for the last few months: implementation of “BigInt” in Firefox,
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heap object representation in spidermonkey
I was having a look through SpiderMonkey’s source code today and found something interesting about how it represents heap objects and wanted to share.
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design notes on inline caches in guile
Ahoy, programming-language tinkerfolk! Today’s rambling missive chews the gnarly bones of “inline caches”, in general but also with particular respec
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notes from the fosdem 2018 networking devroom
Greetings, internet!I am on my way back from FOSDEM and thought I would share with yall some impressions from talks in the Networking devroom. I didn
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instruction explosion in guile
Greetings, fellow Schemers and compiler nerds: I bring fresh nargery!instruction explosionA couple years ago I made a list of compiler tasks for Guile
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spectre and the end of langsec
I remember in 2008 seeing Gerald Sussman, creator of the Scheme language, resignedly describing a sea change in the MIT computer science curriculum.
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a new concurrent ml
Good morning all!In my last article I talked about how we composed a lightweight “fibers” facility in Guile out of lower-level primitives. What we im
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growing fibers
Good day, Schemers!Over the last 12 to 18 months, as we were preparing for the Guile 2.2 release, I was growing increasingly dissatisfied at not havin
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