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Intermediate Representations, Part 1

I've been working on a substantial amount of language and compiler design the last couple of years, both professionally and at home. In compiler theory, some of the most useful tools are intermediate languages, intermediate representation (IR) ...

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Trampolines and Coroutines

My research has lead me to a discovery in problems prevalent to systems that use cooperative multitasking (or non-preemptive multitasking). First, cooperative multitasking, as the name states, allows processes and programs to voluntarily yield control ...

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Repaint Segmentation of Algorithms

The last couple of years I have been researching solutions to loathsome symptoms of engines like libChromiumContent as a native platform. The biggest one being the bottleneck of operations on the DOM. Although originally things like scrolling caused an entire repaint ...

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Encounter with Applicative Functors

This holiday weekend has enlightened me on some important topics in functional programming. It has persuaded me to take a real look at categ ...

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