Many people know that you shouldn’t do decimal calculations, such as those involving U.S. dollars and cents, with the floating-point numbers in most programming languages. This is because decimal numbers can’t be expressed exactly as such floating-point numbers, so you … Read more
…unk (76.3% of tax cumulative) H-ISO-TLCSLOT (IsoSubspace.{h,cpp}, GCThreadLocalCache.cpp, DFGSpeculativeJIT.cpp, FTLLowerDFGToB3.cpp, AssemblyHelpers.h): per-type IsoSubspace TLC slot stamped at GCClient::Heap creation; tlcSlotForConcurrentlyWithIso() resolves via the stamped index. JSArray EXCLUDED (returns nullopt): JIT inline allocateObject/emitAllocateJSObject stores butterfly word UNTAGGED -> fresh inline JSArray … Read more
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported on Monday that iOS 27 will add a “Create a Pass” feature to the Wallet app. Tap the “+” button you already use to add credit cards or pass emails, and Wallet will offer something it … Read more
Helping users navigate through our site with ease helps them reach their desired destination thus improving their experience within our application. Breadcrumbs play a crucial part in this: they give users a clear idea of where they are and provide … Read more
Tue 15 July 2025 Robin Hänni & Marcin Wojnarowski student-projects [regex] Tue 15 July 2025 Robin Hänni & Marcin Wojnarowski student-projects [regex] An annotated guide to adding captureless lookbehinds to the Rust linear-time regex engine. In a previous blogpost, Erik … Read more
Well, here’s a weird one. At Soundslice, our sheet music scanner digitizes music from photographs, so you can listen, edit and practice. We continually improve the system, and I keep an eye on the error logs to see which images … Read more
I had mentioned a number of new Transitous features in a previous post. As those largely depend on the corresponding data being available, here’s an overview of how you can help to find, add and improve that data. Transitous Transitous … Read more
Published on 2025-04-21 Two things that really annoy me with some programming languages: the lack of keyword (optional, always named and order agnostic) parameters and when the language has a builtin feature not made available to the user. Tcl hits … Read more
2025-02-21 Comments powered by Mastodon! I hate ads. I also hate tracking and bloat. But I didn’t actually hate the latter quite enough to get rid of Disqus for comments. It was a free, good service, and you could turn … Read more
Potholes are the £14.4 billion problem blighting Britain’s roads and leaving behind many a frustrated motorist. Now engineers believe “self-healing” roads may be the solution. Research suggests that asphalt roads could be made far more durable by adding a new … Read more