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Indeed. Looking at the assembly generated it looks like gcc is too smart for its own good.

And here are some recent bencmarks : http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2016-May/24964... http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2016-June/2496...

If your server is running Unix you might want to check Ocaml with js_of_ocaml (and maybe eliom), part of the ocsigen Web stack. Both languages are very similar but ocaml is a first…

Just my 2cs, but the complexity of this code is here to remind you there are a lot of cases you have to take into account : let path = Path::new(&app_path); if let Some(ostr) = pat…

I agree with you that this comment is quite harsh, but i'd like to point out that it's not a fair representation of steveklabnik's usual interaction with the community on reddit an…

look at the code. AT_RANDOM is. used when it's avaible in the fallback function. For some reason, the devs don't seem to trust it much, according to the comment.

I don't know why apache says freeBSD, but i'm pretty sure that the server is running DragonFly

Capsicum is still work in progress and worked on. Since FreeBSD 9, it has undergone a lot of internal design changes (capabilities are now embedded in the filedescriptors instead o…

Note that the problem you describe for process is not a fundamental design choice. For instance, FreeBSD has added such API. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pdfork

Maybe the name Ph. D., but the Ph. D. itself is older in the USA and in Europe. There were Ph. D. in the 19th century both in Europe and in Universities like Yale or Harvard.

Actually, that's a lot of words to say that ; is a binary operator, if i'm correct. a ; b is the operator which returns the value of b. And, there is some syntactic sugar to make a…

Number of people who died due to military attacks in Afghanistan : nobody knows. At least 40 000, officially, but "we don't count". Seems legit.