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Bryce Van Dyk
Personal blog · brycevandyk.comprogrammingsystems
Bryce Van Dyk's personal blog at brycevandyk.com covers programming and systems. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Poor Alder Lake performance when building Firefox due to bad scheduling”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on Firefox's --no-remote flag as a longer explanation of how Firefox attaches to an already running instance instead of opening a separate one.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Reflections on code and other stuff
Most-linked posts?
- Poor Alder Lake performance when building Firefox due to bad scheduling2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-14
What Hacker News says?
Here's a longer explanation. https://www.brycevandyk.com/dissecting-firefoxs-no-remote-op... By default, Firefox looks for an already running instance and attaches to it, opening a new window in the existing session. --no-remote disables that connecting behavior.
Comment linking /dissecting-firefoxs-no-remote-option/
on “Firefox 74”Submitted Poor Alder Lake performance when building Firefox due to bad scheduling as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Windows scheduling bug on Alder Lake during Firefox build as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Geckoview/Firefox for Android under Windows Subsystems for Linux (wsl) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debug Rust on Windows with Visual Studio Code and the MSVC Debugger as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Does Firefox Use E4 and E5 Values to Fill Memory? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion