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eschew it all
Personal blog · eschew.wordpress.comprogrammingscience
eschew it all is a personal blog at eschew.wordpress.com about programming and science. Since 2014, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Summarizing Garbage Collection (2016)”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on programming language theory and garbage collection, such as an explanation of soundness and completeness in type systems and a summary of GC research.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Summarizing Garbage Collection (2016)6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2016-10-04
What Hacker News says?
Accidentally unsound is a problem, but intentionally unsound just means that they balanced soundness against other design criteria such as completeness, complexity, and tooling capability, then decided that they were willing to trade soundness for other things. For onlookers, here's a lucid explanation of soundness and completeness in type systems: http://eschew.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/sound-and-complete/ The autho…
Comment linking /2009/08/31/sound-and-complete/
on “Stop Writing JavaScript Compilers, Make Macros Instead”Submitted On LLVM’s GC Infrastructure (2013) as a story · 40 points
HN discussion> From a technical (i.e. useless) point of view SBCL very nearly already has a real-time GC If your technical (theoretical) definitions are useless, you need to use different definitions. A practical definition of “real-time” GC is a minimum mutator utilization bound for any program given sufficent RAM, but the only GC I’m aware of that does this (despite the abundance of papers on GC wirh “real-time” in the title)…
Comment linking /2016/09/02/summarizing-gc/
on “Steel Bank Common Lisp 2.3.8 released: “a mark-region parallel GC is available””Submitted Summarizing Garbage Collection (2016) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHere’s a fairly extensive review that mentions some recent research on “real-time” GCs, including one with a lower bound for mutator utilization: https://eschew.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/summarizing-gc/ .
Comment linking /2016/09/02/summarizing-gc/
on “The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition”Submitted Undergrad Compilers from the Hive Mind as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two Lovely Talks from POPL 2020 about Real-World Bugs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Summarizing Garbage Collection as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Summarizing Garbage Collection as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Summarizing Garbage Collection as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Languages: Sound and Complete Properties as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Summarizing Garbage Collection as a story · 1 points
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