Every now and then we get the question from an interested party along the lines of “So when is this not a good fit?” after someone realizes that pretty much most any daemonized service running on a x86 linux instance … Read more
Exploring Deno’s JavaScript Runtime in a Proof-of-Concept Rust Application for Filtering Text with JS Expressions Written by Austin Poor Published 2023-05-03 The Deno dinosaur sitting in a field in Pangea — with a small Rust colored crab in the foreground … Read more
SunOS is a historical UNIX operating system widely used from the mid 80s into the early/mid 90s. Older versions of QEMU struggled to emulate the SPARC platform that SunOS ran on, but QEMU v7.2 supports SPARC well enough to install … Read more
Today I wanted to understand the performance difference between two Python implementations of a mechanism to detect changes to a SQLite database schema. I rendered the difference between the two as this chart: From start to finish, this entire benchmarking … Read more
Facebook’s LLaMA is a “collection of foundation language models ranging from 7B to 65B parameters”, released on February 24th 2023. It claims to be small enough to run on consumer hardware. I just ran the 7B model on my 64GB … Read more
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New year, new RISC-V Yocto blog post o/ When I wrote my last post, I did really not expect my brand new VisionFive-2 board to find its way to me so soon… But well, a week ago it was suddenly … Read more
Credit: vlada_maestro / Thinkstock https://www.istockphoto.com/gb/photo/young-man-running-during-sunny-morning-on-park-gm916145090-252106772 The stock library no longer exists. Image was incorporated into the webpage during the subscription term and can be used indefinitely in the same page – subject to thinkstock subscription rules.More info is at the … Read more
30 Dec 2022 1. Introduction My own personal white spot regarding BPF subsystem in Linux kernel was always programs performance and an overall introspection. Or to formulate it more specifically, I wasn’t sure if there is any difference in how … Read more
Today, you can’t buy a new x86 processor that runs at under 1 GHz, with most mainstream desktop CPUs carrying base clocks that are well over 2 GHz or even in the 3 GHz range and boosting up much higher … Read more