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Segfaulty Deduction

Personal blog · blog.cdleary.comprogrammingsystems

Segfaulty Deduction is a personal blog at blog.cdleary.com about programming and systems. Since 2008, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Efficiency of list comprehensions”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-20, and you can follow it by feed.

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23mentions?
17HN people?
2008–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2011

Most-linked posts?

  1. Efficiency of list comprehensions
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-12-07
  2. Paradox of the generalist
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-10-23
  3. Overview of Firefox JavaScript compilers: TraceMonkey, JägerMonkey and IonMonkey
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-06-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. captaintk · 2011-10-17
    I can highly recommend http://blog.cdleary.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?”
  2. mbrubeck · 2011-08-29

    Submitted Understanding JIT spray as a story · 112 points

    HN discussion
  3. raphlinus · 2017-08-22
    Good candidate for most evil use of the assumption that char is signed. Incidentally, that's not going to be true on arm[0]. [0]: http://blog.cdleary.com/2012/11/arm-chars-are-unsigned-by-de...

    Comment linking /2012/11/arm-chars-are-unsigned-by-default/

    on “Why is this C++ code faster than my hand-written assembly (2016)”
  4. llambda · 2012-12-07

    Submitted Efficiency of list comprehensions as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  5. cdleary_ · 2011-12-05
    I also did a write up on this called "Mapping the monkeysphere" that you may find helpful: http://blog.cdleary.com/2011/06/mapping-the-monkeysphere/

    Comment linking /2011/06/mapping-the-monkeysphere/

    on “MemShrink progress report, week 23”
  6. kapilkaisare · 2010-10-10

    Submitted Why programming languages? as a story · 34 points

    HN discussion
  7. praxxis · 2011-06-08

    Submitted Overview of Firefox JavaScript compilers: TraceMonkey, JägerMonkey and IonMonkey as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  8. evilpie · 2012-01-07

    Submitted String representation in SpiderMonkey as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  9. mattyb · 2011-02-03

    Submitted Picky monkeys PIC ARM as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  10. kinetik · 2010-09-27

    Submitted PICing on JavaScript for fun and profit as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  11. watermel0n · 2014-03-04

    Submitted Efficiency of list comprehensions as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. llambda · 2012-11-03

    Submitted Paradox of the generalist as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. llambda · 2011-12-15

    Submitted Too smart, doesn't get quite so many things done? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. llambda · 2011-11-08

    Submitted My programming job evaluation criterion as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. pbiggar · 2011-04-14

    Submitted Why JS performance matters as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. s4chin · 2016-06-28

    Submitted Efficiency of Python list comprehensions(2010) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. drv · 2013-01-21

    Submitted Big design vs simple solutions as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. drv · 2012-12-14

    Submitted Systems programming at my alma mater as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. vgnet · 2012-06-04

    Submitted Simple, selfish, and unscientific shootout as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. llambda · 2011-09-24

    Submitted Thinking of dynamic language code as a template as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. gtani · 2008-09-20

    Submitted Desktop Linux incompatibilities with iPhone and Android as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. merlinsbrain · 2012-10-23

    Submitted Paradox of the Generalist - You never know until you try as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. mattyb · 2010-12-26

    Submitted A generator protocol trap as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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