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TCMalloc implements its per-CPU caches using restartable sequences (man rseq(2)) on Linux. This kernel feature was developed by Paul Turner and Andrew Hunter at Google and Mathieu Desnoyers at EfficiOS. Restartable sequences let us execute a region to completion (atomically with respect to other threads on the same ...

01 Jan, 2024 Reading time: 15 minutes Text is the medium of digital interaction, and text rendering has an outsized impact on the overall fit and finish of any system. It therefore pains me that axle has for years relied on a low-resolution 8x8 bitmap font. Let’s fix it! Take a look at the characters composing this ...