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New comment by ErikCorry in "How many branches can your CPU predict?"

ErikCorry — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:35:02 +0000

Yeah performance counters

New comment by ErikCorry in "Micropayments as a reality check for news sites"

ErikCorry — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:15:33 +0000

I like the coins idea. I don't subscribe because I know I'll forget about it and it will turn into a recurring charge on my credit card. But I would buy $10 of coins, knowing the paywall just comes back if I don't buy more, and if I lose interest it won't keep costing me anything.

When I see the "$1 introductory offer" I just think they are trying to trick me.

New comment by ErikCorry in "Micropayments as a reality check for news sites"

ErikCorry — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:10:09 +0000

$13/month is less than many of those sites cost individually, but I get them all for that price?

New comment by ErikCorry in "The story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself (1997) [pdf]"

ErikCorry — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:14:03 +0000

A lot of it went into V8 too.

State of URL parsing performance in 2025

ErikCorry — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:32:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.yagiz.co/state-of-url-parsing-2025/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46218824

Points: 3

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New comment by ErikCorry in "Help, My Java Object Vanished (and the GC Is Not at Fault)"

ErikCorry — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 21:00:37 +0000

I'm actually pretty surprised if the JVM uses malloc to allocate the heap. V8 uses mmap, never malloc.

New comment by ErikCorry in "Perl's decline was cultural"

ErikCorry — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 20:56:41 +0000

Larry should be remembered for the development of "patch" more than perl. Without the concept of fuzzily applying patches to modified source files you can't have "git rebase" or "git merge".

New comment by ErikCorry in "Perl's decline was cultural"

ErikCorry — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 20:51:43 +0000

The syntax problems are just surface. There are some real problems underneath:

Poor performance of the single implementation.

A single implementation.

Leaky ref counted GC, but 'luckily' the syntax for references is so clunky that nobody does anything complicated enough that it really matters.

Bolted on object oriented features that never got the love they needed at a time when oo languages were sweeping the world.

Most of the wizards decamping to a new language (Perl6) that was 'developed' for years without an actual implementation to keep them grounded.

New comment by ErikCorry in "Help, My Java Object Vanished (and the GC Is Not at Fault)"

ErikCorry — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 13:46:19 +0000

Nice!

Why malloc? Surely this is an on-heap object, not malloc allocated?

New comment by ErikCorry in "GCC SC approves inclusion of Algol 68 Front End"

ErikCorry — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:59:01 +0000

Yeah if you ever wondered why the fields in a lot of Posix APIs have names with prefixes like tm_sec and tm_usec it's because of this misfeature of early C.

New comment by ErikCorry in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

ErikCorry — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:34:58 +0000

You could always manually build the same thing as lambda with a class and you had the same problem.

New comment by ErikCorry in "V8 Garbage Collector"

ErikCorry — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 13:50:21 +0000

The C++ GC is not for V8 code, it's for the users of the V8 API eg. Chrome (Blink). It's not being used for big internal systems like the compilers or GC.

V8 has its first module in Rust and I'm sure more are coming, but it's not necessarily an easy integration.

JS is a GCed language. Are there good examples of Rust interacting well with a GCed language runtime where it is able to free unreachable cross domain pointer cycles? Like a JS object that has a reference to a Rust object, which itself has a reference to a JS object. Add more steps and hopefully you can see that collecting such cycles is a hard problem. This is the problem the C++ GC solves.

By the way you can't always break cycles with weak pointers. The browser standards have semantics you have to adhere to.

New comment by ErikCorry in "Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in those with low levels"

ErikCorry — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:26:17 +0000

That sounds like a lot:

To help prevent vitamin D toxicity, don't take more than 4,000 international units (IU) a day of vitamin D unless your healthcare professional tells you to. Most adults need only 600 IU of vitamin D a day https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...

New comment by ErikCorry in "Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in those with low levels"

ErikCorry — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:22:36 +0000

Most vitamins are a waste of time and money, some are even harmful[1], but there are a lot of people with D deficiency, especially in winter[2].

1 https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17/17/2744#:~:text=highest%20...

2 https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/vitamin-d#edit-group-image--...

New comment by ErikCorry in "Weekend projects: Chicken Squisher 3000"

ErikCorry — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 07:10:09 +0000

IME ducks don't go into the coop at dusk so they will get trapped on the wrong side.

New comment by ErikCorry in "Weekend projects: Chicken Squisher 3000"

ErikCorry — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 07:08:07 +0000

Is that why it doesn't work?

New comment by ErikCorry in "Peanut allergies have plummeted in children"

ErikCorry — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:28:36 +0000

[Citation needed] for a pesticide connection.

Unless you are an insect, most pesticides are harmless for you. And for those that are not, nobody has proved a connection to allergies.

New comment by ErikCorry in "Peanut allergies have plummeted in children"

ErikCorry — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:09:21 +0000

Miasma is a very bad idea because https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45647737

New comment by ErikCorry in "Peanut allergies have plummeted in children"

ErikCorry — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:57:18 +0000

Eating peanuts reduces allergies, but getting peanuts on your skin increases allergies.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009167491...

Or maybe in your lungs.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8429226/#R7

New comment by ErikCorry in "United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet"

ErikCorry — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 21:45:31 +0000

Classic Azimov plot line