Darius Bacon

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I guess I could volunteer, though I'd rather someone else owned it, like you or @akaptur. My intent for this work here was to make a cut-down version of byterun...

I also ported a half-dozen tests for metaclass logic over from CPython 3.4's test_metaclass.py (they're all passing). They're not checked in yet because I guess we'd need to add the...

Oh, and I still need to install 3.3 and make sure that's still passing.

Think of this as a little historical artifact from the early 90s offline world, most of it -- I forget how the license terms came about but I think it...

I wonder how practical it'd be to compile an interpreted Common Lisp to WebAssembly. As a preliminary, I just built CLISP for x86/Linux, and it looks like the stripped native...

I'm sure I know less than you, but I read a little of the source after Mike's talk and could stand to read more.

Yes, looks like it's emitting back-to-front. Makes me feel a little vindicated since my own x86 machine-code emitter worked that way and it got me a few funny looks. The...

Not on my laptop anymore, I'm afraid.

I think a new reader could use a little more context near the start of the article: what's special about LuaJIT that causes the challenges listed? You don't start to...

Re: Spectre, I wonder about the tradeoffs in trying to ward it off. Of the integrity/confidentiality/availability triad, it affects confidentiality, but that was already quite leaky in a tracing JIT...