~lobsters | Bookmarks (2)

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog posting here about Fedora having frame pointers (LWN backgrounder, HN thread). I made some mistakes in that blog posting and retracted it, but I wasn’t wrong about the conclusions, just wrong about how I reached them. Frame pointers are much better than DWARF. DWARF unwinding mig...

I’ve wanted to revisit “Tail Call Optimization in Elixir & Erlang – not as efficient and important as you probably think” (2016) for a while – so much so that I already revisited it once ~5 years ago to show off some benchee 1.0 features. As a reminder, in these the results were: body-recursive was fastest on input ...