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Emery Berger
Personal blog · emeryblogger.comprogrammingsystems
Emery Berger writes Emery Blogger, a personal blog at emeryblogger.com about programming and systems. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Software Needs Seatbelts and Airbags”. The last post was in 2018, 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 Emery Berger's blog for his research on memory allocators, such as DieHard and Exterminator, which tolerate or repair memory errors. The one comment corrects which system is being discussed and does not judge the writing.
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.
Emery Berger's Blog
Most-linked posts?
- Software Needs Seatbelts and Airbags2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-03
What Hacker News says?
What you are referring to is not DieHard but rather Exterminator. DieHard probabilistically tolerates memory errors, while Exterminator repairs them. Both rely on a carefully designed semantics under which one can provide a reasonable interpretation for erroneous computations. They employ sophisticated randomized algorithms and/or statistical inference procedures and contain proofs of their effectiveness. That's not…
Comment linking /2012/05/31/software-needs-seatbelts-and-airbags/
on “DieHard: An error-resistant memory allocator for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X”Submitted A Puzzler: Crashes When Optimized as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Needs Seatbelts and Airbags as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Needs Seatbelts and Airbags as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dthreads: Efficient Deterministic Multithreading as a story · 1 points
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