johnmyleswhite

Papers

Benchmarking seems not to be a main focus of any specific academic field, although the problem has been addressed by many different groups in CS.

Some papers I found interesting:

• http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/nswamy/papers/bottlenecks-ecoop04.pdf
• http://www.sigmod.org/publications/sigmod-record/0806/p45.dewitt.pdf
• http://daniel-wilkerson.appspot.com/trend-prof.pdf
• http://sape.inf.usi.ch/sites/default/files/publication/EvaluateCollaboratoryTR1.pdf

freeformz

A slightly updated version of this doc is here on my website.

Why I Like Go

I visited with PagerDuty yesterday for a little Friday beer and pizza. While there I got started talking about Go. I was asked by Alex, their CEO, why I liked it. Several other people have asked me the same question recently, so I figured it was worth posting.

Goroutines

The first 1/2 of Go's concurrency story. Lightweight, concurrent function execution. You can spawn tons of these if needed and the Go runtime multiplexes them onto the configured number of CPUs/Threads as needed. They start with a super small stack that can grow (and shrink) via dynamic allocation (and freeing). They are as simple as go f(x), where f() is a function.

si14

(defn foobar []
  (defn dominanto [dominance strand1 strand2 fenotype]
    (conda [(membero strand1 dominance)
            (== fenotype strand1)]
           [(membero strand2 dominance)
            (== fenotype strand2)]
           [(== strand1 strand2)
            (== fenotype strand1)]))

  (defn inherito [dominance parent1 parent2 fenotype]

diasjorge

(setq el-get-sources
      '((:name package-name)))

(defun sync-packages ()
  "Synchronize packages"
  (interactive)
  (el-get 'sync '(el-get package))
  (add-to-list 'package-archives '("tromey" . "http://tromey.com/elpa/"))
  (add-to-list 'package-archives '("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/"))
  (setq my-packages (mapcar 'el-get-source-name el-get-sources))

mejibyte

using namespace std;
#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <sstream>
#include <fstream>
#include <cassert>
#include <climits>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <cstring>

schacon

[url "https://github.com/"]
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