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Pat Shaughnessy

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Last updated 3 months ago

Write Barriers

3 months ago

I've started working on a new edition of Ruby Under a Microscope...

Using Different Size Pools

3 months ago

I've started working on a new edition of Ruby Under a Microscope...

Inserting One New Element into Hashes of Varying Sizes

3 months ago

I've started working on a new edition of Ruby Under a Microscope...

Updating Ruby Under a Microscope

3 months ago

Ruby stores much of its own internal data in hash tables. I've...

LLVM IR: The Esperanto of Computer Languages

about 3 years ago

Esperanto grammar is logical and self consistent, designed to be easy to...

Visiting an Abstract Syntax Tree

over 3 years ago

Joshua Tree National Park (via: Wikimedia Commons) In my last post, I...

Reading Code Like a Compiler

over 3 years ago

Imagine trying to read an entire book while focusing on only one...

Find Your Language’s Primitives

over 3 years ago

If you dig into your programming language's syntax, you might discover that...

Generic Types: Adding Math Puzzles To Your Code

over 3 years ago

In this formula, x is the bound variable, a isthe free variable...

To Learn a New Language, Read Its Standard Library

over 3 years ago

If I was learning to read English as a foreign language, I...