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All opinions etc. expressed here are my own an do not represent the company I work at... You know the drill.

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r-r-r··on Debugging a Futex Crash
Yeah, same here. I wonder if this'd have been caught by ubsan, though.
r-r-r··on Using the mold linker for fun and 3x-8x link time speedups
Oh great! I'll fetch and try a new build, Thank you! :)
r-r-r··on Using the mold linker for fun and 3x-8x link time speedups
Rui, thank you! mold is a life saver! My compile debug cycle improved a lot since I started using it!

(I tend to prefix PATH with the folder I build it into for the specific project I need it for)

r-r-r··on Using the mold linker for fun and 3x-8x link time speedups
It got to 1.0 recently and still is in dev.

But off the top - No lto support, missing some flags that we use when building drivers, valgrind (cachegrind etc) fail to load symbols, some linker stuff is case senstive etc.

Can also add it to PATH, instead of hardcoding it like op did here.

But it's well worth it in some projects - In my case it shaved over a minute from incremental builds, resulting in sub 10 second builds!

(Alsp note you can cache indexes in gdb by default)

r-r-r··on Facebook Renames to Meta
Nicely translates to "(shes's) dead" in Hebrew...
r-r-r··on GDB 10.1
> Multi-target debugging support

This is great! I really needed this multiple times over the years. Always wanted to compare some data between 2 executions of the same applications with 2 different inputs or 2 revisions of an application. This should really help with triangulation of regressions etc. automatically using a single script within gdb!

r-r-r··on Halide Mark II
Oh I thought this was a new release of https://halide-lang.org/ but it's a photography app for iphone.

Funny enough, this language is actually useful for optimized image processing pipelines, especially when targeting such "uniform" devices.

r-r-r··on Durability: Linux File APIs
I was thinking about this dedicated post, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21674610 but I think I saw it multiple times here over the years.

(I think there was at least one more article by danluu on this subject but this one I remembered by name, having discussed it several times with colleagues when considering using something (sqlite) less ad hoc for temporary data)

r-r-r··on Durability: Linux File APIs
Somewhat relevant is this article, https://danluu.com/file-consistency/ which was discussed here a while, back.