Monday, February 13, 2017

Looking into what Rust can do that other languages can't ... or can they

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A recent blog post  What Rust Can Do That Other Languages Can't  the following statement is presented: struct X {   y: Y } impl X {...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Enabling HTTPS is easy

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To see how easy I looked how well it is supported in a bunch of free software blog aggregator sites. Planet Gnom e: HTTPS forwards to pla...
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Sunday, January 29, 2017

Testing exception vs error code behaviour with real world code

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Our previous looks at exception performance have used microbenchmarks and generated code ( here and here ). These are fun and informative t...
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Sunday, January 22, 2017

A Python extension module using C, C++, FORTRAN and Rust

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One of the advantages of using a a general build system is that combining code written in different languages is easy. To demonstrate this I...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

Using a smart card for decryption from the command line

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In Finland the national ID card contains a fully featured smart card, much like in Belgium and several other countries. It can be used for a...
Sunday, January 8, 2017

Measuring execution performance of C++ exceptions vs error codes

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In an earlier blog post we found out that C++ exceptions produce smaller executables than corresponding code using error codes. The most co...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Clarifications to xz compression article

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My previous article on beating the compression performance of xz went a bit viral. Comments on various discussion forums seemed to bring up ...
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