Andy Wingo
Hacker.
North Carolina (USA)
I enjoy practicing aikido in my free time – and hacking, of course!
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a baseline compiler for guile
Greets, my peeps! Today’s article is on a new compiler for Guile. I made things better by making things worse!The new compiler is a “baseline compil
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understanding webassembly code generation throughput
Greets! Today’s article looks at browser WebAssembly implementations from a compiler throughput point of view. As I wrote in my article on Firefox’s
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multi-value webassembly in firefox: a binary interface
Hey hey hey! Hope everyone is staying safe at home in these weird times. Today I have a final dispatch on the implementation of the multi-value feat
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multi-value webassembly in firefox: from 1 to n
Greetings, hackers! Today I’d like to write about something I worked on recently: implementation of the multi-value future feature of WebAssembly in
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firefox's low-latency webassembly compiler
Good day!Today I’d like to write a bit about the WebAssembly baseline compiler in Firefox.background: throughput and latencyWebAssembly, as you know,
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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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