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Pointers Gone Wild is a personal blog at pointersgonewild.wordpress.com about programming. Since 2012, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “The Fastest For-In Loops in the Whole Wide Web”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-12, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Maxime's blog, linked for background on Higgs, a JavaScript JIT compiler research project with basic block versioning, written in D. Commenters cite it for the project overview and for the PhD work behind it.
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A blog about programming, technology and society.
Most-linked posts?
- /higgs/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-05-26
- The Fastest For-In Loops in the Whole Wide Web2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-14
What Hacker News says?
Concerning your critique of the in your opinion overly hard scientific review process. According to her blog the paper was rejected because: "Reviewers at conferences [...] have been very skeptical, and pressed us multiple times to produce some kind of comparison of basic block versioning against tracing."[1] I think this is a very valid concern. When you describe a new scientific approach (Basic Block Versioning) y…
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on “Higgs JavaScript Virtual Machine”Submitted D’s Garbage Collector Problem as a story · 110 points
HN discussionIt's a JavaScript JIT compiler. From the info page [1]: Some notable features of Higgs include: - A self-hosted runtime written in extended JavaScript - Lazy/incremental JIT compilation Context-driven versioning of basic blocks - A Foreign Function Interface (FFI) system to interface with C code - An interactive shell (REPL) with access to low-level primitives. - A simple module system and a set of useful libraries.…
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on “Higgs JavaScript Virtual Machine”Submitted Circumventing the D Garbage Collector as a story · 54 points
HN discussionIt's a PhD research project. See the project overview page for specifics: http://pointersgonewild.wordpress.com/higgs/
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on “Higgs JavaScript Virtual Machine”Submitted The Fastest For-In Loops in the Whole Wide Web as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThe Higgs VM is part of Maxime Chevalier's PhD work.You can find her blog here: http://pointersgonewild.wordpress.com/category/higgs/ .
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on “Higgs JavaScript Virtual Machine”Submitted Faster than Google's V8 * as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot answering your question, but there is a research project implementing a Javascript JIT compiler in D: http://pointersgonewild.wordpress.com/higgs/
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on “Asynchronous I/O that doesn’t get in your way, written in D”Submitted Programming without Text Files as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI may be biased, but this was one of my favorite talks at DConf :3. You can find the source to higgs on GH: https://github.com/maximecb/Higgs More info is on Maxime's blog: http://pointersgonewild.wordpress.com/ And our subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/higgsjs/ You can also stop by and say hello in #higgsjs on freenode. We're looking for contributors of all skill levels if anyone is interested!
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on “Refactoring JIT Compilation [video]”Submitted A Radical Introduction to Programming as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Contribute to the Higgs JS Compiler as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Lisp Never Took Off as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turing Drawings as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Static Typing May Not Scale as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inefficient Numerical Operators in JavaScript as a story · 1 points
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