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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

To talk about C++’s current safety problems and solutions well, I need to include the context of the broad landscape of security and safety threats facing all software. Many of the most damaging recent security breaches happened to code written in MSLs (e.g., tl;dr: I don’t want C++ to limit what I can express efficiently.

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Segmentation Fault – A DBA Perspective

Percona

I tried to search for details related to segmentation fault on the internet and found many articles; however, it failed to quench my thirst as none of them had the answer I was looking for. In order to understand “segmentation fault,” it is a must to know the basic idea of segmentation and its implementation in C programming.

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On Technique

O'Reilly

GitHub Copilot (based on a model named Codex , which is derived from GPT-3) generates code in a number of programming languages, based on comments that the user writes. Going in the other direction, GPT-3 has proven to be surprisingly good at explaining code. But it’s obvious where this is trending. But I don’t know if that’s true.

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Reinventing Performance Testing: New Technologies

Alex Podelko

This is the mainstream approach to load testing: recording communication between two tiers of the system and playing back the automatically created script (usually, of course, after proper correlation and parameterization). And, of course, there is a need to sequence and parameterize your API calls to represent a meaningful workload.

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The State Of Web Workers In 2021

Smashing Magazine

iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems. How long your piece of JavaScript takes to finish depends on how fast the device is that your code is running on.

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AV1 Image File Format (AVIF)

KeyCDN

The major application for high quality compression of photos is Internet speed. While bandwidth does continue to increase each year, so does the quality and size of most Internet media. AV1 is the royalty-free video coding format that has most tech experts believing it is the next step in media compression.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. We ended up hiring Phil Parkman to take over managing our group, which by then also included my friend Dave Fisk, who I still hang out with regularly.

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