liblfds.org blog

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https://www.liblfds.org/slblog/2015-07.html

2015-07-07 : Moved back to WordPress.
2015-07-07 : Status
2015-07-25 : Progress

https://www.liblfds.org/slblog/2015-08.html

2015-08-13 : SMR
2015-08-16 : SMR Redux
2015-08-16 : New SMR design
2015-08-16 : Inverted SMR
2015-08-16 : SMR design

https://www.liblfds.org/slblog/2015-09.html

2015-09-05 : Some real actual work
2015-09-06 : SMR design flaw and improvements
2015-09-27 : SMR
2015-09-28 : SMR design

https://www.liblfds.org/slblog/2015-11.html

2015-11-18 : Release incoming, believe it or not
2015-11-18 : Amazon addendum
2015-11-20 : Status update
2015-11-21 : Update
2015-11-21 : mySQL leap second bug!
2015-11-21 : Progress
2015-11-21 : Naming conventions
2015-11-21 : ahhhhhhhh
2015-11-22 : short form chosen
2015-11-22 : The Grand Renaming
2015-11-22 : Raspberry Pi
2015-11-22 : Raspberry Pi rocks
2015-11-24 : Inadvertantly detected race condition in ringbuffer read test
2015-11-25 : Update
2015-11-25 : Update
2015-11-25 : List
2015-11-25 : List bifurication
2015-11-25 : Update
2015-11-26 : Update
2015-11-26 : thoughts
2015-11-27 : and back round we go
2015-11-27 : Update
2015-11-28 : ringbuffer API design
2015-11-29 : ringbuffer
2015-11-29 : Update
2015-11-29 : Update

https://www.liblfds.org/slblog/2015-12.html

2015-12-01 : Pulling on a thread (thread - see? geddit? see what I did there?)
2015-12-02 : C ternary operator ‘strangeness’
2015-12-02 : API changes
2015-12-02 : Update
2015-12-04 : Update
2015-12-04 : Musing
2015-12-04 : 99.9% code complete
2015-12-04 : tests pass on debug and release on 32 bit ARM
2015-12-05 : Factorized the porting abstraction layer
2015-12-06 : Update
2015-12-07 : Update
2015-12-07 : Need more get/set macros
2015-12-07 : Update
2015-12-07 : Update
2015-12-10 : Update
2015-12-11 : Update
2015-12-12 : Update
2015-12-14 : Update
2015-12-14 : new intro paragraph
2015-12-16 : Update
2015-12-17 : Ci20 / MIPS32
2015-12-17 : btree API renames
2015-12-20 : Update
2015-12-21 : Updatez
2015-12-21 : the M&S design flaw
2015-12-22 : Possible typo/bug in the Michael and Scott queue white paper psuedo-code
2015-12-22 : Linux
2015-12-22 : Ci20 Creator is here!
2015-12-22 : Ci20… earlier GCC and barriers
2015-12-23 : Ci20
2015-12-23 : CODE COMPLETE
2015-12-25 : Docs
2015-12-25 : Update
2015-12-26 : I’m impressed
2015-12-26 : Microsoft and pure total mental agony
2015-12-26 : Update
2015-12-27 : Update
2015-12-27 : Update
2015-12-27 : Windows 8.1
2015-12-27 : Updatez
2015-12-28 : Update
2015-12-29 : 7.0.0 release in the morning
2015-12-29 : 7.0.0

https://www.liblfds.org/slblog/2016-01.html

2016-01-21 : Benchmark
2016-01-23 : Edward Hugh died
2016-01-25 : Benchmark progress
2016-01-27 : My recent encounters with airport security
2016-01-31 : Benchmark update

https://www.liblfds.org/slblog/2016-02.html

2016-02-01 : First light
2016-02-01 : Second light
2016-02-01 : Third light
2016-02-01 : Fourth light - ARM
2016-02-02 : Fifth light - backoff period really matters
2016-02-02 : Sixth light - ARM with backoff
2016-02-03 : Further experimental results
2016-02-05 : Bleark
2016-02-05 : Wierd City
2016-02-05 : Check this
2016-02-05 : Expect the unexpected - pthread mutex is the winner!
2016-02-05 : Results without PRNG
2016-02-05 : One or two notes
2016-02-06 : All bets are off
2016-02-06 : Results round two
2016-02-07 : Hyperthreading
2016-02-07 : Very large back-off values
2016-02-07 : Permitting greater exponentiation
2016-02-08 : Removing PRNG
2016-02-08 : PRNG ha!
2016-02-09 : First gnuplot
2016-02-12 : Four core gnuplot
2016-02-13 : Update
2016-02-21 : .onion endpoint up
2016-02-24 : .onion
2016-02-26 : Test and benchmark
2016-02-26 : Bloody Microsoft
2016-02-26 : WIndows topology API seems to have a design flaw

https://www.liblfds.org/slblog/2016-03.html

2016-03-04 : Updatez
2016-03-06 : Test work
2016-03-07 : Lock-free PRNG
2016-03-09 : Test refactored
2016-03-19 : Not every release from now on will come with MSVC solution files
2016-03-24 : M&S Queue benchmark experiment
2016-03-27 : BTree (add-only, unbalanced) benchmark gnuplot

https://www.liblfds.org/slblog/2016-04.html

2016-04-05 : Update
2016-04-12 : Update
2016-04-16 : It’s Friday, it must be Helsinki
2016-04-18 : Christ, finally
2016-04-23 : anti-aging news
2016-04-29 : Ringbuffer disappointment
2016-04-30 : Update
2016-04-30 : Performing tuning

https://www.liblfds.org/slblog/2016-05.html

2016-05-01 : More M&S Queue Performance Tuning / Analysis
2016-05-01 : auto-setting backoff
2016-05-03 : Backoff auto-tune successful
2016-05-04 : Code complete
2016-05-06 : MS build problems
2016-05-06 : Broken topology info reporting for Windows 7 in VirtualBox under Linux
2016-05-06 : Win7 topology reporting under VirtualBox
2016-05-08 : Doccing
2016-05-08 : Update
2016-05-11 : Update
2016-05-11 : Update
2016-05-12 : may_alias is an alias for will_go_horribly_wrong
2016-05-12 : Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
2016-05-12 : GCC does not support make uninstall
2016-05-12 : Utter GCC frustration
2016-05-12 : Whack-a-mole with GCC
2016-05-12 : ARM ERG
2016-05-13 : ERG
2016-05-14 : Determining the ERG
2016-05-14 : ERG code done
2016-05-15 : ARM
2016-05-15 : ARM #2
2016-05-15 : ARM #3
2016-05-15 : ARM #4
2016-05-17 : Update
2016-05-17 : lols
2016-05-17 : GetLogicalProcessorInformation / GetLogicalProcessorInformationEx
2016-05-17 : Progress
2016-05-19 : Freelist scaling
2016-05-21 : Update
2016-05-23 : makefile whack-a-mole
2016-05-24 : Going nuts
2016-05-24 : Linux kernel source code
2016-05-25 : Learned something new
2016-05-25 : Update
2016-05-26 : Getting there!
2016-05-27 : Update
2016-05-28 : Update / benchmarking 7.0.0
2016-05-28 : benchmarking earlier liblfds releases
2016-05-31 : 7.1.0 is out

https://www.liblfds.org/slblog/2016-06.html

2016-06-04 : Mediawiki / Firefox hell
2016-06-05 : Unbounded, single producer, single consumer queue idea
2016-06-18 : Samba update is blocking
2016-06-18 : unbounded, single/single queue implemented
2016-06-29 : Update

https://www.liblfds.org/slblog/2016-07.html

2016-07-03 : Qsort
2016-07-03 : AirBnB search results seem borked
2016-07-06 : Word of warning re AirBnB exchange rates
2016-07-07 : Germans seem to have trouble with negotiation
2016-07-12 : AirBnB
2016-07-12 : Washing Machines
2016-07-14 : Amazon rule because everyone else sucks at order forms
2016-07-16 : Using glassdoor.com to select manufacturers when buying a product
2016-07-21 : Always provide an email address with your contact form
2016-07-26 : SMR is back
2016-07-30 : Update
2016-07-31 : SMR Update

https://www.liblfds.org/slblog/2016-08.html

2016-08-04 : Raspberry Pi 3 ordered
2016-08-10 : 64 bit ARM
2016-08-24 : Disconnected
2016-08-24 : Pasting with styling

https://www.liblfds.org/slblog/2016-09.html

2016-09-25 : I’ve done some actual like work!
2016-09-27 : API design experimentation

https://www.liblfds.org/slblog/2016-10.html

2016-10-02 : M&S queue API improvement - solves the consequences of the dummy element awkwardnesses
2016-10-02 : First unbounded/single/single queue benchmark
2016-10-02 : SMR update
2016-10-04 : Valve and Steam - country change is a one-way process
2016-10-08 : Update
2016-10-09 : clang
2016-10-09 : Got it
2016-10-11 : buildtastic
2016-10-15 : Updatez’n’stuff
2016-10-15 : More on building compilers
2016-10-15 : Matrix of release dates for GCC, binutils, glibc and numactl
2016-10-16 : binutils is death
2016-10-17 : Today’s installment of GCC building disaster, insanity and catastrophe
2016-10-20 : Building GCC
2016-10-25 : General update
2016-10-26 : glibc (the pain continues)
2016-10-30 : Another weekend fruitlessly trying to build GCC and glibc

https://www.liblfds.org/slblog/2016-11.html

2016-11-05 : I never want to see -
2016-11-06 : Complexity is oblivion, because you can’t use complex software
2016-11-10 : Update - we’re on a road to nowhere, come on inside…
2016-11-12 : versioning
2016-11-12 : Agile considered harmful
2016-11-17 : SimpleCGI
2016-11-19 : Organizing a company
2016-11-29 : ARM64 dev board has arrived

https://www.liblfds.org/slblog/2016-12.html

2016-12-17 : try/except in C
2016-12-21 : Update
2016-12-30 : Hazard pointers have been implemented

https://www.liblfds.org/slblog/2017-01.html

2017-01-09 : Using lock-free data structures in a “single-threaded mode”
2017-01-16 : English. Trying speaking it. Words have meanings, that sort of thing.
2017-01-23 : Update
2017-01-25 : singly-linked list update
2017-01-29 : singly linked-list design

https://www.liblfds.org/slblog/2017-02.html

2017-02-13 : Bug Report : 7.1.0 unbounded, many producer, many consumer queue
2017-02-20 : 7.1.1 is out
2017-02-22 : DWCAS bug fix - “new” 7.1.1 released
2017-02-26 : Build system OTW
2017-02-26 : build system progress

https://www.liblfds.org/slblog/2017-03.html

2017-03-01 : Build system progress
2017-03-05 : Build system update
2017-03-08 : Build system update
2017-03-11 : Unexpected behaviour from Gnuwin32 gnumake and tar on Windows
2017-03-12 : build system heaven
2017-03-17 : Update
2017-03-17 : Maybe the end of the line for GCC
2017-03-18 : update
2017-03-19 : Update
2017-03-21 : Update
2017-03-23 : Build system update
2017-03-24 : Build system beauty
2017-03-25 : Building GCC, or, how to hack your way through jungle with a blunt keyboard
2017-03-25 : Pi Death
2017-03-25 : Amazing - just goes to show, the improbable eventually must happen
2017-03-25 : Cable failure
2017-03-26 : Alright!