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Seconded! Especially with magit (and I suppose with vc in general) key chords are really nice.

I started using emacs about seven years ago after about eight years of exclusively using vim, primarily because I wanted to see what the editor war's were all about (and because I …

In general many commenters have a misconception that the mentioned French "baccalaureate" is related to the US/UK undergraduate bachelor's degree. As the article points out, and th…

Managing free memory is indeed an interesting problem. Besides the simple free-list approach sketched by the author (sidestepping the first-fit vs. best-fit search strategy, which …

A couple of years ago, I read his paper "Definitional Interpreters for Higher Order Languages" [1], because it was suggested to me by a friend. It was a joyful read, and to the bes…

ABC, always be coding.

I tried Oberon once and have to say that it was way ahead of its time. Not only did the author (of the linked paper) invent one of the first JIT compiled systems, but also the abil…

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I know these from the site, and have looked at the Django benchmark that's listed there. I think it's a rather small benchmark that does exercise lots of Django internals (but that…

ad 1 ) Hm, this seems to be a good point, but what's with the following line of thinking: some thread A interprets a program P, while another thread B compiles P to native machine …

Interesting point of view, the problem in compiler construction is well known ("Proebsting's law", though it says it's more like 18 years instead of 10.) The issue with benchmarks …