Easy SAE to Metric socket size conversion
There are approximately 25.6 millimeters per inch. What’s that? You say there are only 25.4 millimeters per inch? You’d be right in saying that 25.4 is a ...
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Build template
I don’t like make. The syntax is clunky, the semantics are unintuitive, it’s hard to get parallel builds to work well, and there are a million ways to shoot...
Stupid vim trick
I decided yesterday to play with autocmd: function EditFileLine(file_line) let file = substitute(a:file_line, '\(.*\):\(.*\)', '', '') let line = substi...
Color wiring diagrams
Whenever I look at a car wiring diagram, I tend to get cross-eyed. The entire thing is usually black-and-white with labels to indicate wire color. When I s...
A new project
A difficult and unfortunate truth for any hobbyist is that there is only so much time in a single human lifespan. I have wanted to continue to play with JIT...
Converting stack-to-register
Like many other virtual machines, the YARV machine is stack-based. Because most modern CPUs are register-based, to compile YARV bytecode to efficient native...
Why libjit?
One question I’ve been asked quite a bit over the last two years is why I decided to use libjit for Ludcirous. Evan Phoenix had considered it for Rubinius a...
A faster stack
I’m back in the country now and starting to work on Ludicrous again. A number of YARV instructions have now been implemented and very simple methods can be ...
Ludicrous on YARV
Last night I was tinkering with Ludicrous and I decided to see how hard it would be to get it to run on YARV. After modifying the extension to compile again...
Ludicrous release is on the way
A number of months ago I began working on a just-in-time compiler for Ruby 1.8. What started as an experiment is actually now a reality – Ludicrous is now a...