Category Archives: Ruby

Efficient algorithm for expanding circular buffers

Posted on 2010-12-23 by Gustavo Niemeyer

Circular buffers are based on an algorithm well known by any developer who’s got past the “Hello world!” days. They offer a number of key characteristics with wide applicability such as constant and efficient memory use, efficient FIFO semantics, etc. … Continue reading →

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Introducing The Hacking Sandbox

Posted on 2010-09-25 by Gustavo Niemeyer

When I started programming in Python long ago, one of the features which really hooked me up was the quality interactive interpreter offered with the language implementation. It was (and still is) a fantastic way to experiment with syntax, semantics, … Continue reading →

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The forgotten art of error checking

Posted on 2010-06-17 by Gustavo Niemeyer

I was just rambling randomly yesterday, in the usual microblogging platforms, about how result checking seems to be ignored or done badly. The precise wording was: It’s really amazing how little attention error handling receives in most software development. Even … Continue reading →

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MagLev and distributed VMs

Posted on 2008-06-01 by Gustavo Niemeyer

Avi Bryant is working on MagLev, a Ruby interpreter, based on Gemstone’s Smalltalk VM, with some very amazing features, like transactioned objects distributed across several VMs: The integrated VMs, cache, and storage conspire to create an illusion that global state … Continue reading →

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