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- Quantifying the Performance of Garbage Collection (2005) [pdf] https://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/gcvsmalloc.pdf 9 comments
- all of the garbage collectors we examine here suffer order-of-magnitude performance penalties relative to explicit memory management. https://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/gcvsmalloc.pdf 63 comments programming
- Bush aide: "That's not the way the world really works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality." http://www.cs.umass.edu/~immerman/play/opinion05/withoutadoubt.html 23 comments politics
- The Hardest Languages [PDF] - A funny comparison by a computer scientist between natural languages http://www.cs.umass.edu/~rsnbrg/hardest.pdf 2 comments programming