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Snaipe / malloc_article.md
Last active December 17, 2024 12:16
malloc_article

Please note that the article is now on my website, and even though I am still working on it, any feedback is appreciated. Thanks for reading !

On the Quest of recoding malloc(3)

Back when I did not know anything about programing and started to learn C, I was first introduced to pointers (and other dreaded horrors that made me curl into a corner and cry) and dynamic memory in general.

I was baffled, troubled, yet fascinated by the basic explanation on how memory worked, and started to dread the time where I would need to manually create my char arrays for each and every sentences of my program; right before learning about string literals and feeling like an idiot.

It was then where I was learning about memory allocation and came upon a function that I would call for long the "magic function" : malloc. Magic, because at that point I didn't know how it worked, let alone knew anything about memory other that it was a "chain of boxes for numbers".

@jboner
jboner / akka-cluster-implementation-notes.md
Last active October 9, 2024 11:34
Akka Cluster Implementation Notes

Akka Cluster Implementation Notes

Slightly disorganized but reasonably complete notes on the algorithms, strategies and optimizations of the Akka Cluster implementation. Could use a lot more links and context etc., but was just written for my own understanding. Might be expanded later.

Links to papers and talks that have inspired the implementation can be found on the 10 last pages of this presentation.

Akka Gossip

Gossip state

This is the Gossip state representation:

@FiloSottile
FiloSottile / 32.asm
Last active January 31, 2025 03:22
NASM Hello World for x86 and x86_64 Intel Mac OS X (get yourself an updated nasm with brew)
; /usr/local/bin/nasm -f macho 32.asm && ld -macosx_version_min 10.7.0 -o 32 32.o && ./32
global start
section .text
start:
push dword msg.len
push dword msg
push dword 1
mov eax, 4
@jbenet
jbenet / current_utc_time.c
Created July 17, 2011 16:17
work around lack of clock_gettime in os x
/*
author: jbenet
os x, compile with: gcc -o testo test.c
linux, compile with: gcc -o testo test.c -lrt
*/
#include <time.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <stdio.h>