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I wrote Spall, one of the lightweight profilers mentioned in the post. I loved the author's blogpost on implicit in-order forests, it was neat to see someone else's take on trees f…

Location: Seattle, WA Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: C, Go, Python, Rust, x86_64 + MIPS Assembly, SQL, DWARF + PDB, WASM/JS Résumé/CV: https://colrdavidson.githu…

Ooh, hadn't seen @disable before, super useful to know! That'll be handy for doing toggleable build options for tracing / debugging. I've been using Odin for about a year now, many…

Ooh, I've seen this before on the Odin newsletter! https://odin-lang.org/news/newsletter-2022-11/ Exciting to see this get some spotlight. Was it entirely from scratch? Did you bui…

So, spall has a JSON parser to help all the poor folks stuck using JSON or the chrome devtools profiler, who still need to keep using it. For everyone doing new things, there's a b…

Yep, core_net is the bulk of it, and I have a fork with changes to bring it up to date with master, we're just hashing out final details to get it ready to wrap and ship at this po…

Sure! So far, Odin has been awesome for doing custom allocation. Everything in the core library that allocates takes an optional allocator parameter, which means that you can use q…

So, dtrace2spall is going to generate much smaller files and impact runtime less, because it samples with dtrace, and then converts the data to spall's format as a post-pass. Auto-…

[I'm the author] Spall is a web-accessible profiler that I made to help my web-dev friends load gigabyte+ JSON traces without lunch-break-long load times. Recently, Spall got exper…