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Charles Oliver Nutter
Personal blog · headius.blogspot.comprogramming
Charles Oliver Nutter writes Headius, a personal blog at headius.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2007, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Charles Oliver Nutter On Maglev”. The last post was in 2011, 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 Charles Oliver Nutter's blog for analysis of language implementation performance, such as his 2008 breakdown of Maglev's benchmark numbers, which is cited alongside JIT and Ruby discussions.
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.
Helping Ruby and Java Evolve Together
Most-linked posts?
- Charles Oliver Nutter On Maglev2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-06-01
- The Power of the JVM2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-05-04
What Hacker News says?
Slightly off-topic digression: Would WAS compilation help solve the ruby / rails timeout problem? https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/h12-request-timeout-in... > H12 - Request Timeout in Ruby (MRI) > Rack-timeout limitations > Due to the design of the Ruby programming language’s Thread#raise API, which timing out code depends on, there is a known bug with rack-timeout that can put your app into a bad state if rack…
Comment linking /2008/02/rubys-threadraise-threadkill-timeoutrb.html
on “Ruby 3.2 preview 1 with support for WASM compilation”Submitted Is Werewolf Killing the Conference Hackfest? (2007) as a story · 39 points
HN discussionBoth Herb and Miguel seem to be writing on a flawed assumption, which is that JIT will only ever apply optimizations that can be proven safe. As I understand it, this is true for CLR implementations. And if that were the case generally, there would be no significant-enough difference between the set of optimizations available with AOT and the set of optimizations available with JIT, and JIT would never be "as fast a…
Comment linking /2008/05/power-of-jvm.html
on “Can JIT be Faster?”Submitted The Power of the JVM as a story · 21 points
HN discussionI think Charles Oliver Nutter did an excellent job parsing Maglev's numbers: http://headius.blogspot.com/2008/06/maglev.html
Comment linking /2008/06/maglev.html
on “Maglev and the naiivety of the Rails community”Submitted JRuby Compiler Is Complete as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Charles Oliver Nutter On Maglev as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Promise and Peril for Alternative Ruby Impls as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby Implementers Design Meeting #1 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shared Data Considered Harmful as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Duby: A Type-Inferred Ruby-Like JVM Language as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jython's Back, Baby! as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted RubySpec: Bringing Ruby Test Suites Together as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rubyists are Wrong as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted JRuby RC2 Released as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Charles Nutter of JRuby on the DLR as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End Is Near For Mongrel (Glassfish is here) as a story · 1 points
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