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The magical Futex
Its rare that computing creates something as elegant as the Futex: A simple and highly elegant system on top of which all the important synchronization primitives can be built, which has minimal overhead, and which is screamingly fast. Its even … Continue reading
The sorry state of Unicode in C
Once upon a time… Things were nice and simple; all characters were the same size, and that size was 8-bits. Things were easy to handle, for the most part. Much of C’s string handling is rooted in this era, with … Continue reading
