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Dec 30, 2020:
The Shape of 6M Lines of Ruby
Following up on my last blog post,
I am going to look at how Ruby is used to get a bit of an impression of whether
there are major differences between Ruby and Smalltalk in their usage.
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Dec 14, 2020:
The Shape of 1.7M Lines of Code
Recently, I was wondering how large code bases look like when it comes to
the basic properties compiler might care about. And here I am not thinking about
dynamic properties, but simply static properties such as length of methods,
number of methods per class, number of fields, and so on.
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Dec 7, 2020:
Preventing Concurrency Bugs from Causing Harm, Automatically
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Oct 19, 2020:
Irrationally Annoyed: The SIGPLAN Blog Post writing 30 Years of PL Research Out of Existence
I started writing this post when being very very annoyed by this blog post on the SIGPLAN blog.
I could not understand how “THE SIGPLAN” blog
could simply write 30 years of
programming language research out of existence,
only barely acknowledging Self and JavaScript.
It felt like duty called…
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Aug 8, 2020:
Metaprogramming, Metaobject Protocols, Gradual Type Checks: Optimizing the "Unoptimizable" Using Old Ideas
Last year, I was asked to give a talk for the Meta’19 workshop.
It’s a workshop on metaprogramming and reflection.
The submission deadline for this year’s edition, is less than a month away: Check it out!
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Jul 7, 2020:
Is This Noise, or Does This Mean Something? #benchmarking
Do my performance measurements allow me to conclude anything at all?
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Jun 26, 2020:
An Introduction to Efficient and Safe Implementations of Dynamic Languages
Last September, I had a lot of fun putting together a lecture on
language implementation techniques. It is something I wanted to do for a while,
but I had not had a good excuse before to actually do it.
I am working at the
School of Computing
at the University of Kent. My work focuses on programming language
implementation techniques, complex concurrent systems, and tooling.