Stack Safety for Free?

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stack-safety-for-free?

tl;dr. I demonstrate how to (ab)use generators/coroutines to transform any recursive function into an iterative function with nearly zero code changes. I explain the technique using a small example written in Rust, which can also be found on the Rust … Read more

Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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stack-overflow-sold-to-prosus-for-$1.8b

Prosus PRX 1.54% NV said it struck a $1.8 billion deal to acquire Stack Overflow, an online community for software developers, in a bet on growing demand for online tech learning. Based in New York, closely held Stack Overflow operates … Read more

How to look at the stack with gdb

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I was chatting with someone yesterday and they mentioned that they don’t really understand exactly how the stack works or how to look at it. So here’s a quick walkthrough of how you can use gdb to look at the … Read more

The stack monoid revisited

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the-stack-monoid-revisited

This is a followup to my previous post on the stack monoid, but is intended to be self-contained. Motivation: tree structured data GPUs are well known for being efficient on array-structured data, where it is possible to operate on the … Read more