Andy Wingo

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socialism or barbarismsocialism
Benchmark Mode in the SpiderMonkey shell: https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2026/04/13/benchmark-mode.html
Benchmark Mode in SpiderMonkey

Measuring performance without shooting youself in the foot (as badly)

SpiderMonkey JavaScript/WebAssembly Engine
apparently i have been keeping a web log for 24 years. whole lotta water under that bridge

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@whitequark/116401201394905560

idea here is that instead of avoiding OOM by limiting linker parallelism, have the build manager detect impending OOM, kill an expedient process, and then restart it later when conditions are more favorable, degenerating all the way to "ninja -j1" if needed.

anyone know if this has been done?

using « imaginary » as a noun both intrigues and annoys me
@slava I circled all that apply

Unfortunately people—including software engineers, who really should know better!—are hell-bent on giving LLMs incredible power, and then connecting those LLMs to the Internet at large. This is going to get a lot of people hurt.

https://aphyr.com/posts/417-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-safety

The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Safety

just paid for something in america by "e-check", a process by which you read out your bank account number to someone over the phone, and they just take the money. a bank transfer, but pull-based; truly, land of the free
saw one of these in the wild this morning; i thought they were endangered
The acyclic e-graph: Cranelift's mid-end optimizer