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JSC is barely ever mentioned in the v8 team. They gave up wanting to be benchmark kings in the interest of having decent performance in Android markets (low-end and high). Comments…

This was stupid comment, long day. Totally looking at this the wrong way.

How does the hardware visible context get suitably updated if the confidential data in the other SIP isn't touched by execution (speculative or otherwise)? Doesn't something need t…

In Singularity, the system gets to decide what happens at SIP boundaries (and the kernel ABI boundary). HIP is the full address space change, but any mitigation steps can be introd…

Mark Aiken wrote a paper on Singularity with and and without Memory Protection: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/deconst... By design, Singularity didn't suppor…

Preliminary VarHandle support in Android start in P. The API is hidden, but it had to start ahead of the Java 9 libraries because it's a lot of work. All code needs to be capable o…

Hey Joe, can't you just stop nagging users to use your browser and stop overriding the users choice of browser? No need to repackage anything, just move on.

Completely agree. My home network is built with Mikrotik kit which is priced where it's affordable to have spares. I have yet to encounter a failure, but could drop in a new router…

36000 lines of handwritten assembler in v8? Not since the transition to ignition and turbofan... $ git clone https://github.com/v8/v8.git $ cd v8 $ find . -name '*.S' There's still…

I love what DeepMind is doing, but find their publication choices bizarre. Sure Nature has the occasional ML / NN paper, but it's not a top journal for AI / ML / CS and it makes ge…

Microsoft does not preinstall third party bloatware, that's OEMs running on thin margins. There have been Microsoft efforts to share with OEMs the effect of bloatware on boot times…

It doesn't take 10 minutes for a LaTeX or Word user to get frustrated with docs. What doesn't it do: 1. user defined style definitions 2. citations / bibliography 3. anchoring Ther…

Why is this HN material? It's a Slack customer advisory.

The Linux Subsystem for Windows isn't a great example. Folks in MSR Cambridge had Linux running on Windows circa Y2K. The Linux Subsystem today comes from a second effort using Dra…

Mikrotik wAP ac [1] positioned in center of home with a Mikrotik Hex POE [2] as the main router and DHCP server. There is TP-Link HomePlug [3,4] between router and WiFi base statio…

That is the nature of the beast except for retropiling. Method handles may be a hard set of features to implement on that path.

Coming in O by the looks of it: https://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik/dalvik-byteco...

Clickbait. No story until unveiling event.

Thanks for sharing. The documentation is well done, looking forward to checking out the code.

Are you sure no one else was involved in starting LLVM? PhD supervisor, fellow students, etc. Just saying...