Advogato blog for lupus

19 Feb 2008 - February 19, 2008

Novell hack week One of the things that have been sitting in my TODO list for a few years is to improve the performance of the Regex engine in Mono, both by speeding up the interpreter and by compiling the regular expressions to IL code so that the JIT could optimize it. This seemed like a good project for hack week and Zoltan joined me doing the implementation. I worked on a new compilerinterpreter combination that uses simplified opcodes, with the aim of making their...
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11 Feb 2008 - February 11, 2008

The future of C C as a programming language is still young and has evolved nicely in the last few years: most of the new features take it closer to a high-level language, allowing shorter and nicer code for common patterns. A language needs to be able to cover a wide spectrum of usages to be considered mature but there is one side of the spectrum that has been neglected in C for far too long: the low level side close to IL code. Someone already hacked up a program that uses a...
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