Mozilla staff are being very diplomatic and restrained by allowing WebAssembly to be portrayed as a compromise between the approaches of asm... | Continue reading
I just read Sachin Agarwal's post titled "The web sucks. Browsers need to innovate" and my head exploded. But I can see that he's not alone... | Continue reading
mold looks pretty cool, and a faster drop-in ld replacement is obviously extremely useful. But having no link step at all would be even fa... | Continue reading
I just made a performance improvement to the (single-threaded) rr sources command to cache the results of access system calls checking fo... | Continue reading
This is based on a comment I left on HN. Many people prefer print debugging over interactive debugging tools. Some of them seem to have... | Continue reading
This post was written by Pernosco co-founder Kyle Huey. Traditional debugging forms a hypothesis about what is going wrong with the program... | Continue reading
In November we announced Pernosco availability for individual developers via our debugging-as-a-service platform. That product requires de... | Continue reading
I've been programming in C and C++ for over 25 years. I have a PhD in Computer Science from a top-ranked program, and I was a Distinguished ... | Continue reading
This post is part of a series about the rr remix instrumentation engine that powers the Pernosco omniscient debugger . When rr replays a r... | Continue reading
To show off the power of our Pernosco debugger , we wanted many short demo videos of the application interface. Regular videos are relativel... | Continue reading
When debugging graphical applications it can be helpful to see what the application had on screen at a given point in time. A while back we ... | Continue reading
A compelling feature of Rust and C++ is "zero-cost abstractions". You can write "high level" code, e.g. using iterators, that compiles down ... | Continue reading
Quite often someone proposes something like this: HTML should never have grown into the mutated application runtime it is today. The present... | Continue reading
Quite often someone proposes something like this: HTML should never have grown into the mutated application runtime it is today. The present... | Continue reading
Until recently Pernosco was limited to debugging statically-compiled languages with DWARF debuginfo. Many of our potential customers would ... | Continue reading
Some C++ luminaries have submitted an intriguing paper to the C++ standards committee. The paper presents an ambitious vision to evolve C++... | Continue reading
I know it's not the greatest marketing pitch, but it's the truth. Google is bent on establishing platform domination unlike anything we've ... | Continue reading
Author's note : Unfortunately, my tweets and blogs on old-hat themes like "C++ sucks, LOL" get lots of traffic, while my messages about Pern... | Continue reading
Author's note : Unfortunately, my tweets and blogs on old-hat themes like "C++ sucks, LOL" get lots of traffic, while my messages about Pern... | Continue reading
An under-appreciated problem with existing debuggers is that they lack first-class support for collaboration. In large projects a debugging ... | Continue reading
Over the last few years we have kept our work on the Pernosco debugger mostly under wraps, but finally it's time to show the world what we'... | Continue reading
Over the last few years we have kept our work on the Pernosco debugger mostly under wraps, but finally it's time to show the world what we'... | Continue reading
I am not satisfied with Docker. Untrusted users should be able to run their own container instances. Running a basic container instance mean... | Continue reading
I've built a lot of command-line tools over the years, mostly in C or C++, but also in Java, Python, Rust, Turbo Pascal, etc. I mostly rolle... | Continue reading
LLD is generally much faster than the GNU ld.bfd and ld.gold linkers, so you would think it has been pretty well optimised. You might then ... | Continue reading
I know it's not the greatest marketing pitch, but it's the truth. Google is bent on establishing platform domination unlike anything we've ... | Continue reading
Kevin Williamson writes an ode to the benefits of competition and capitalism, one of his themes being the changing fortunes of Apple and Mi... | Continue reading
I've had an intuition that clang produces generally worse debuginfo than gcc for optimized C++ code. It seems that clang builds have more va... | Continue reading
I've had an intuition that clang produces generally worse debuginfo than gcc for optimized C++ code. It seems that clang builds have more va... | Continue reading
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Repatriate Kiwi. Hacker. | Continue reading
People keep inventing new programming languages. I'm surprised by how many brand-new languages are adopted by more than just their creators,... | Continue reading
Over two years ago I wrote about the C++ Lifetimes proposal and some of my concerns about it. Just recently, version 1.0 was released with... | Continue reading
For the first time in my life I tracked a real bug's root cause to incorrect usage of weak memory orderings. Until now weak memory bugs were... | Continue reading
Imagine we have a client and a server. The client wants to create logical connections to the server (think of them as "queries"); the client... | Continue reading
Mark Côté has published a "vision for engineering workflow at Mozilla": part 2 , part 3 . It sounds really good. These are its points: Chec... | Continue reading
I investigated an rr bug report and discovered an annoying Intel CPU bug that affects rr replay using data watchpoints. It doesn't seem to ... | Continue reading