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A show about Real Estate. A show about empowering people, giving back, living, laughing and loving/peace. First 30 minutes is about real estate- 2nd half is abo

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Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/s: How I Learned To Love Tail Calls in C April 21, 2021 __attribute__((musttail)) statement attributes, you can now get guaranteed tail calls in C, C++, and Objective-C. While tail calls are usually associated with a functional programming style, I am interested in them purely for performance reasons. It turns out that in some cases we can use tail calls to get better code out of the compiler than would otherwise be possible—at least given current compiler technology—without dropping to assembly. Applying this technique to protobuf parsing has yielded amazing res...

Is there still research to be done in Programming Languages? This essay touches both on the topic of programming languages and on the nature of research work. I am mostly concerned in analyzing this question in the context of Academia, i.e. within the expectations of academic programs and research funding agencies that support research work in the STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). This is not the only possible perspective, but it is the one I am taking here. PLs are dear to my heart, and a considerable chunk of my career was made in that area. As a designer...