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Documentation — Hivm

http://hivm.org/doc

The friendly, accessible high-level virtual machine. The Hivm documentation is currently a major work in progress and a bit sparse. It is currently divided into 2 sections: the manual and the API documentation. The API docs are built straight from the Hivm source using the Doxygen tool. The manual is available below. Generating the API documentation. Hivm is developed by Dirk Gadsden. And licensed under the Mozilla Public License. The source code of this site is available on GitHub.

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precompile: Hivm: semester of JIT

https://precompile.com/2014/12/03/hivm-semester-of-jit.html

The weblog of Dirk Gadsden. Hivm: semester of JIT. This fall semester I had the opportunity to do a self-directed independent study in tracing just-in-time (JIT) compilation. The goals for the study were to develop a working instruction tracer, trace-directed compiler, and (time permitting) exploration of basic optimizations. I’m pleased to say that all of those goals were achieved! A brief run-down of the numbers. 34 files changed (12 of those new files). September was devoted to building the tracing in...

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precompile: Heterogeneous computing

https://precompile.com/2015/06/02/heterogeneous-computing.html

The weblog of Dirk Gadsden. The bubble of cryptocurrencies helped to contribute to a new wave of interest in hardware-level reprogrammable computing, specifically in field-programmable gate arrays. Hardware reprogrammability offers massive speed advantages over the regular software-level reprogrammability (as most coders are used to), but today it’s limited to very limited and specific problem sets, such as stream processing/encoding, embedded devices, and cryptocurrency mining .

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precompile: Forgotten worlds in the computer

https://precompile.com/2014/12/16/forgotten-worlds.html

The weblog of Dirk Gadsden. Forgotten worlds in the computer. I may have stayed up way too late last night reading through a historical archive about the Apollo Guidance Computer. That computer is one of the great examples of embedded computing: a powerful (for the time) computing machine designed to perform a restricted set of complex operations in a specific environment. The archive is a fascinating trove of information and great diagrams. Of the time were the first machines to implement the type of mi...

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precompile: Announcing Hummingbird

https://precompile.com/2015/04/02/announcing-hummingbird.html

The weblog of Dirk Gadsden. A couple days ago I made public the repository for Hummingbird. A new language created by Ryan Gonzalez. And myself, and today I’m proud to actually announce it. Over the past year or so I’ve had the pleasure of being able to dive into new languages like Swift. And older languages like OCaml. My experiences with all of these languages inspired the notion of approaching a type-checked, compiled language from the side of the programmer rather than from the side of the machine.

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precompile: The Sony breach and what it means for security policy

https://precompile.com/2015/01/26/sony-breach-security-policy.html

The weblog of Dirk Gadsden. The Sony breach and what it means for security policy. With the majority of the Sony breach of November and December 2014 now behind us, it’s a good time to reflect upon the nature of the attack and what we as a community of technologists can learn from it. Security starts and ends with people. Underpinnings of securing (digital) data controlled access and encryption are strong. Air gaps, vertical integration (in the extreme for preventing TAO. However, there is. This was also...

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precompile: Future of interface building in Cocoa

https://precompile.com/2014/12/18/future-of-interface-building.html

The weblog of Dirk Gadsden. Future of interface building in Cocoa. The methodology of building interfaces in Cocoa has changed a lot. Over the past few years. There has been a tension between the side of building-interfaces-through-code and the side of building-interfaces-through-Interface Builder. The former gives you far more immediate control over how your interface will appear and what sort of stuff you can do with it, but the price of that is some really long, hairy view code:. Which introduces a wh...

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precompile: Why govtech is broken

https://precompile.com/2015/05/19/why-govtech-is-broken.html

The weblog of Dirk Gadsden. Why govtech is broken. April marked the first anniversary of TallyVoting. It also marked the end of an year spent prototyping and fundraising with my awesome co-founder, Harlan Hill. That year was, sadly, unsuccessful. Spinning tires on sales. Governments move slowly compared to regular industry; compared to the tech sector government moves glacially slow. Of capital and personnel. We need more speed. The openness, review, and accountability in the process of selling to govern...

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precompile: JavaScript reloading

https://precompile.com/2014/09/10/javascript-reloading.html

The weblog of Dirk Gadsden. Yesterday I published an exciting little piece of JavaScript software I’ve been fooling with. It’s called dy.js. And I hope it can set a model for the future of client-side (and possibly some day server-side) JavaScript development. Our current model of client-side JavaScript programming is very much reminiscent of. Dyjs brings dynamic code reloading. To JavaScript in the browser. Your code is packaged up into.

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precompile: Lingua JavaScript'a

https://precompile.com/2014/11/26/lingua-javascript.html

The weblog of Dirk Gadsden. The way that interactive experiences have been powered on the web has fundamentally changed over the past decade. JavaScript has gone from a little tool for adding extra bits of dynamic interactivity remember DHTML. To a nigh-ubuitious standard. The most remarkable thing about this spread of JavaScript is it’s ubiquity in the context of the history of. The result of this is some truly amazing performance in JavaScript performance these days. This also puts JavaScript in th...