RoarVM

Today, FOSDEM featured that first incarnation of a Smalltalk developer room. Unfortunately, FOSDEM is always packed with interesting talks, so, I only managed to attend a couple of talks. Most notably the talk on Spoon. I also had the chance to give a talk. The presentation included a bit about how to use the RoarVM, how [...]

Today, FOSDEM featured that first incarnation of a Smalltalk developer room. Unfortunately, FOSDEM is always packed with interesting talks, so, I only managed to attend a couple of talks. Most notably the talk on Spoon. I also had the chance to give a talk. The presentation included a bit about how to use the RoarVM, how […]

Today, FOSDEM featured that first incarnation of a Smalltalk developer room. Unfortunately, FOSDEM is always packed with interesting talks, so, I only managed to attend a couple of talks. Most notably the talk on Spoon. I also had the chance to give a talk. The presentation included a bit about how to use the RoarVM, how […]

The first day of the technical tracks including OOPSLA started with a keynote by Ivan Sutherland titled The Sequential Prison. His main point was that the way we think and the way we build machines and software is based on sequential concepts. The words we use to communicate and express ourselves are often of a […]

The first day of the technical tracks including OOPSLA started with a keynote by Ivan Sutherland titled The Sequential Prison. His main point was that the way we think and the way we build machines and software is based on sequential concepts. The words we use to communicate and express ourselves are often of a […]

The first day of the technical tracks including OOPSLA started with a keynote by Ivan Sutherland titled The Sequential Prison. His main point was that the way we think and the way we build machines and software is based on sequential concepts. The words we use to communicate and express ourselves are often of a [...]

Why R? Evaluating benchmark results with Excel became too cumbersome and error prone for me so that I needed an alternative. Especially, reevaluating new data for the same experiments was a hassle. However, the biggest problem with Excel was that I did not know a good way to query the raw data sets and group [...]

Why R? Evaluating benchmark results with Excel became too cumbersome and error prone for me so that I needed an alternative. Especially, reevaluating new data for the same experiments was a hassle. However, the biggest problem with Excel was that I did not know a good way to query the raw data sets and group […]

Why R? Evaluating benchmark results with Excel became too cumbersome and error prone for me so that I needed an alternative. Especially, reevaluating new data for the same experiments was a hassle. However, the biggest problem with Excel was that I did not know a good way to query the raw data sets and group […]

The following introduction and analysis of the Sly3 programming language was written by Pablo Inostroza Valdera as part of his course work for the Multicore Programming course of Tom Van Cutsem. The assignment was to write a blog post about a topic of their own choice, and I repost Pablo’s work here with his permission […]