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Safe with relocation’ mode will allow us to eliminate dreaded ‘external fragmentation’ – which tends to cause quite a bit of trouble for long-running systems

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For a long while, I have been a strong proponent of message-passing mechanisms over mutex-based thread sync for concurrency purposes

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trying to optimize out a 3e-7 performance hit is very rarely worth the trouble.

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With 4S/4U boxes having typical MTBFs of 3–5 years, the next question we should ask ourselves, is “Hey, will we really be able to write software which crashes much more rarely than that?”

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asm.js has invented its own instruction set, which can be still seen as an instruction set of a CPU, at least from the point of view of a C++ compiler.

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As asm.js is a strict subset of JavaScript – it will run even if there is no special support for asm.js in browser.

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You DO need access control for your CSRs.

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This approach means that we can have our cake (have tree-like structures to express access rights) and eat it too (have very fast SQL for checking access)