If you’ve done nothing wrong, then you’ve got nothing to hide. Wrong. Nothing ever justifies giving up your human rights , especially to prove lack of wrong doing, and any government that asks you to do so is not your friend. Terrorism has become a weapon used against us by those elected to lead to ...

If you’ve done nothing wrong, then you’ve got nothing to hide. Wrong. Nothing ever justifies giving up your human rights , especially to prove lack of wrong doing, and any government that asks you to do so is not your friend. Terrorism has become a weapon used against us by those elected to lead to ...

Besides 3 months interrupted to finish degree requirements, and including an internship, I’ve been at Mozilla for about 8 months now. After reading a blog post of another software engineer’s experience at Microsoft, I count my blessings. Reading that article set off too many alarms in my head. It wa...

Besides 3 months interrupted to finish degree requirements, and including an internship, I’ve been at Mozilla for about 8 months now. After reading a blog post of another software engineer’s experience at Microsoft, I count my blessings. Reading that article set off too many alarms in my head. It wa...

The other day I was thinking about the function for performing dynamic memory allocation in the C standard library, malloc. From the manual pages, If successful, the malloc() function returns a pointer to allocated memory. If there is an error, it returns a NULL pointer and sets errno to ENOMEM. One...

The other day I was thinking about the function for performing dynamic memory allocation in the C standard library, malloc. From the manual pages, If successful, the malloc() function returns a pointer to allocated memory. If there is an error, it returns a NULL pointer and sets errno to ENOMEM. One...

I would like to die on Mars… Elon Musk Elon Musk, the 21st Century Industrialist, Bloomberg Well, isn’t that forward thinking? Granted, the full quote I would like to die on Mars, just not on impact is meant to sound hopeful of his company, SpaceX. I agree that some day, humans will be buried on Mar...

I would like to die on Mars… Elon Musk Elon Musk, the 21st Century Industrialist, Bloomberg Well, isn’t that forward thinking? Granted, the full quote I would like to die on Mars, just not on impact is meant to sound hopeful of his company, SpaceX. I agree that some day, humans will be buried on Mar...

Ever since I learned about Just In Time Compilation from the various Ruby VMs and JavaScript VMs, I’ve been inspired. I could tell you all about how just in time (JIT) compilation worked, and how it could give your interpreted language a speed boost. It was so cool. Well, it still is! There’s a ton ...

Ever since I learned about Just In Time Compilation from the various Ruby VMs and JavaScript VMs, I’ve been inspired. I could tell you all about how just in time (JIT) compilation worked, and how it could give your interpreted language a speed boost. It was so cool. Well, it still is! There’s a ton ...

Over the past few years, there’s been certain paradigm shifts in web development. When you think of milestones that really changed how development on the web was done, the two biggest were Ajax and HTML5. Development was identifiably different before and after such technological advancements. There ...

Over the past few years, there’s been certain paradigm shifts in web development. When you think of milestones that really changed how development on the web was done, the two biggest were Ajax and HTML5. Development was identifiably different before and after such technological advancements. There ...

On an interview with Square, I made the mistake of stating that one of the benefits of working with JavaScript over C is that functions are first class in JavaScript, therefore they may be passed around. To which the interviewer replied, “Well, C can do that, what about function pointers?” What? Luc...

On an interview with Square, I made the mistake of stating that one of the benefits of working with JavaScript over C is that functions are first class in JavaScript, therefore they may be passed around. To which the interviewer replied, “Well, C can do that, what about function pointers?” What? Luc...

Last week, the Internet community lost a member in the on going war against the copyright industry. While I’ve never met the deceased, or even heard of the deceased before his suicide, I’m horrified. I’m horrified that the government we are asked to put so much faith in, would give someone, not that...

Last week, the Internet community lost a member in the on going war against the copyright industry. While I’ve never met the deceased, or even heard of the deceased before his suicide, I’m horrified. I’m horrified that the government we are asked to put so much faith in, would give someone, not that...

It’s all about closures. Understanding scope is paramount to coding. What can you access and what can’t you access. Closures allow us to access variables that otherwise might be awkward to pass into a function. Closures can help us out of tricky situations, but can confuse those from backgrounds wit...

It’s all about closures. Understanding scope is paramount to coding. What can you access and what can’t you access. Closures allow us to access variables that otherwise might be awkward to pass into a function. Closures can help us out of tricky situations, but can confuse those from backgrounds wit...

Nick Desaulniers is a software engineer at Google working on compiling the Linux Kernel with Clang (and LLVM). Nick has previously worked on TensorFlow’s Accelerated Linear Algebra (XLA) JIT compiler for Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), and the Linux kernel for the Nexus and Pixel phones while at Goo...

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Desaulniers, Nick. “WebGL Off the Main Thread.” Mozilla Hacks. Mozilla. January 22, 2015. Link Desaulniers, Nick. “Better than Gzip Compression with Brotli.” Mozilla Hacks. Mozilla. November 6, 2015. Link Desaulniers, Nick. “Stereoscopic Rendering in WebVR.” Mozilla Hacks. Mozilla. September 16, 201...

2019 Compiling the Linux Kernel with LLVM Tools FOSDEM ‘19’ - Brussels, Belgium - February 2-3 slides - video 2018 Compiling the Linux Kernel with Clang Linux Plumbers Conference 2018 - Vancouver, Canada - November 13-15 slides - video 2017 Compiling Android Userspace and Linux Kernel with LLVM 2017...

Nick Desaulniers is the team lead and engineering manager of the Android LLVM toolchain team at Google. Nick founded the ClangBuiltLinux project and served as the Linux kernel’s maintainer for Clang/ LLVM build support. He also worked on the XLA compiler for Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), and devic...

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Desaulniers, Nick. “WebGL Off the Main Thread.” Mozilla Hacks. Mozilla. January 22, 2015. Link Desaulniers, Nick. “Better than Gzip Compression with Brotli.” Mozilla Hacks. Mozilla. November 6, 2015. Link Desaulniers, Nick. “Stereoscopic Rendering in WebVR.” Mozilla Hacks. Mozilla. September 16, 201...

2019 Compiling the Linux Kernel with LLVM Tools FOSDEM ‘19’ - Brussels, Belgium - February 2-3 slides - video 2018 Compiling the Linux Kernel with Clang Linux Plumbers Conference 2018 - Vancouver, Canada - November 13-15 slides - video 2017 Compiling Android Userspace and Linux Kernel with LLVM 2017...