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Argues that some information about code can only be conveyed in comments, and catalogues nine kinds of comment that are nearly always worth writing - TODOs, references, correctness arguments, hard-learned lessons, and more. Introduces yadr, our newly open

LLVM's BranchProbabilityInfo assigns every multi-successor terminator a probability distribution over its successors. This post describes the estimation used when no profile is available and reimpleme

Dear subscriber, I wrote a tour of The Consensus walking through features like gift links, topic tagging jobs (find jobs related to compilers, or distributed systems), and email alerts on new jobs, articles, and funding news we index. The blog post ended

From Thomas's 1979 majority voting, to ABD's linearizable register, to Cassandra's read repair: we provide a runnable Python tour of quorum replication, and show how ABD does not solve consensus.

The feed We track hundreds of blogs (and tens of thousands of articles) from companies, projects, and developers across the infrastructure ecosystem. Here are six interesting reads from the last week. See the complete feed at /feed.html . HTTP Message Sig

Hey folks, This week had three big updates to the platform. First, all locations of jobs and companies are enriched to include their state and country to make it easier to search for regions. Second, all jobs and feed pages get marked with a topic badge i

Wasmtime 47 enables WebAssembly garbage collection by default. We look at why WasmGC exists and how Wasmtime's collector evolved from reference counting to semi-space copying.

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Go 1.26 made Green Tea the default GC. We observe its cache-friendliness with perf, visualize the heap to see how Go allocates, and poke at a sparse-page problem a non-moving collector like Go's struggles with.