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A changelist is most generally a Perforce term (and as may the case for Google, a similar concept). In the Perforce Helix Core (what the "Perforce Server" is currently called), cha…

ASAN on its own doesn't detect uninitialized memory. MSAN can, though. Valgrind is also more than just the memcheck sub-tool - there are others, like Cachegrind, which is a cache a…

Do you mean 'BEGIN CONCURRENT'? https://sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/begin-concurrent-pnu-wal2/doc... Where did you see that the plan is to bring those into the mainline distribution?

A company called Violin Memory used to make one for servers: http://www.storagesearch.com/ssd-23.html

Could you give an example of where Perforce is not OSS-friendly? Sure, the product core is not OSS, but parts of the periphery are, and there's at least one section of the company …

Could you give an example of where it has Embraced->Extinguished?

While the Helix Core Server itself is not Open Source, much of the surrounding tooling is. E.g., see the code here: https://swarm.workshop.perforce.com/user/perforce_software I don…

This forum post has some info on benchmarking SQLite with two different backends: https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/9aa5e1dcffde1336 See the "preliminary results" link.

And to expand on this, it's easier to add features to a language than to remove them. If one's design requires certain runtime constraints (ability to hook into interpreter executi…

Indeed, and not only did they develop the Perceus technique for the Koka language, but the immediately practical mimalloc allocator came out of that work as well. https://github.co…

Microsoft's 'mimalloc' MIT-licensed allocator is lock-free. Perhaps there's something in there that'd be interesting to read. https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc https://github.c…