abseil-cpp
serenity
abseil-cpp | serenity | |
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54 | 240 | |
13,955 | 28,823 | |
1.3% | 1.7% | |
9.5 | 10.0 | |
6 days ago | about 23 hours ago | |
C++ | C++ | |
Apache License 2.0 | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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abseil-cpp
- Sane C++ Libraries
- Open source collection of Google's C++ libraries
- Is Ada safer than Rust?
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Appending to an std:string character-by-character: how does the capacity grow?
Yeah, it's nice! And Abseil does it, IFF you use LLVM libc++.
https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/string...
The standard adopted it as resize_and_overwrite. Which I think is a little clunky.
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Shaving 40% Off Googleās B-Tree Implementation with Go Generics
This may be confusing to those familiar with Google's libraries. The baseline is the Go BTree, which I personally never heard of until just now, not the C++ absl::btree_set. The benchmarks aren't directly comparable, but the C++ version also comes with good microbenchmark coverage.
https://github.com/google/btree
https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/contai...
- Faster Sorting Beyond DeepMindās AlphaDev
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āOnceā one-time concurrent initialization with an integer
An implementation of call_once that accommodates callbacks that throw: https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/base/c...
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[R] AlphaDev discovers faster sorting algorithms
I wouldn't say it's that cryptic. It's just a few bitwise rotations/shifts/xor operations.
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Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep RL
You can see hashing optimizations as well https://www.deepmind.com/blog/alphadev-discovers-faster-sort..., https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/commit/74eee2aff683cc7d...
I was one of the members who reviewed expertly what has been done both in sorting and hashing. Overall it's more about assembly, finding missed compiler optimizations and balancing between correctness and distribution (in hashing in particular).
It was not revolutionary in a sense it hasn't found completely new approaches but converged to something incomprehensible for humans but relatively good for performance which proves the point that optimal programs are very inhuman.
Note that for instructions in sorting, removing them does not always lead to better performance, for example, instructions can run in parallel and the effect can be less profound. Benchmarks can lie and compiler could do something differently when recompiling the sort3 function which was changed. There was some evidence that the effect can come from the other side.
For hashing it was even funnier, very small strings up to 64 bit already used 3 instructions like add some constant -> multiply 64x64 -> xor upper/lower. For bigger ones the question becomes more complicated, that's why 9-16 was a better spot and it simplified from 2 multiplications to just one and a rotation. Distribution on real workloads was good, it almost passed smhasher and we decided it was good enough to try out in prod. We did not rollback as you can see from abseil :)
But even given all that, it was fascinating to watch how this system was searching and was able to find particular programs can be further simplified. Kudos to everyone involved, it's a great incremental change that can bring more results in the future.
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Backward compatible implementations of newer standards constructs?
Check out https://abseil.io. It offers absl::optional, which is a backport of std::optional.
serenity
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Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest?
SerenityOS replicates that look and feel. It is also implemented in a dialect of C++ that adheres to some of the good parts of C++98: https://serenityos.org
- SerenityOS
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XZ: A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
One example of a useful technique
https://serenityos.org/ apparently only makes source code available. There are no binary images of the OS to install
I think Andreas said this functions like a little test -- if you're not willing to build it from source, then you probably wouldn't be a good contributor anyway.
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Likewise, my shell project provides source tarballs only, right now - https://www.oilshell.org/release/0.21.0/
It is packaged in a number of places, which I appreciate. That means some other people are willing to do some work.
And they provide good feedback.
I would like it to be more widely available, but yeah I definitely see that you need to "gate" peanut gallery feedback a bit, because it takes up a lot of time.
Of course, it's a tricky balance, because you also want feedback from casual users, to make the project better.
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Fuzzing Ladybird with tools from Google Project Zero
Indeed, given the existence of `JS::NonnullGCPtr`, `JS::GcPtr` intentionally corresponds to a nullable pointer, so it seems dangerous to convert one to a reference without a null-check.
That said, a naive code search finds what *may* be more cases of this pattern:
https://github.com/search?q=repo%3ASerenityOS%2Fserenity+%2F...
Eg: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/a68b134e6dea5065... -> https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/a68b134e6dea5065...
In some of those search results, it is fine because there is a preceding null-check, and obviously I know nothing about this code other than this naive search result, but perhaps it would be prudent to vet all of them.
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The Ladybird Browser Project
It is a SerenityOS project. You can find the answer to that question in their primary project's FAQ[1].
1. https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Documenta...
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Sane C++ Libraries
https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity
The best way to write proper exception free C++ is not to use the C++ Standard Library.
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Serenum: OS from scratch to save computers [video]
I initially confused it with Serenity OS prior to watching the video: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity
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Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
My contributions to SerenityOS[0] helped me get my current job. My team lead (who was also my interviewer) was interested in what I did since I listed some of it in my CV, and I showed him some PRs I made and explained what went into each of them. It was really exciting because I didn't have professional experience with low-level development, and basically got the job due to hobby programming.
[0]: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pulls?q=is%3Apr+autho...
- SerenityOS ā a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core
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Bring garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly
Definitely not "literally impossible", just a great deal of work. https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Ladybird
What are some alternatives?
Folly - An open-source C++ library developed and used at Facebook.
Chicago95 - A rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 Microsoft operating system for Linux.
Boost - Super-project for modularized Boost
rust-raspberrypi-OS-tutorials - :books: Learn to write an embedded OS in Rust :crab:
spdlog - Fast C++ logging library.
haiku - The Haiku operating system. (Pull requests will be ignored; patches may be sent to https://review.haiku-os.org).
Qt - Qt Base (Core, Gui, Widgets, Network, ...)
linux - Linux kernel source tree
EASTL - Obsolete repo, please go to: https://github.com/electronicarts/EASTL
reactos - A free Windows-compatible Operating System
BDE - Basic Development Environment - a set of foundational C++ libraries used at Bloomberg.
redox - Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox