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Postmortem Object Type Identification — mentioned by bcantrill

Wed, 14 Oct 2015 01:59:58 GMT

This paper brings back many great memories -- it's one of those that I can remember the cafe I was in when I first read it -- and Ryan has done an excellent job capturing its importance and influence. Speaking personally, the influence Bonwick's work had is substantial: it was in part as a result of being inspired by this paper that I ended up working with Jeff for the next decade on systems software. In terms of follow-on work, Ryan mentioned the later libumem work[1], but it's also worth mentioning Robert Mustacchi's work in 2012 on per-thread caching in libumem[2]. And speaking for myself…

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Postmortem Object Type Identification — mentioned by bcantrill

Thu, 18 Jun 2015 18:53:04 GMT

That's terrific, and apologies if you feel I've slighted Rust at all. (I admire Rust's goals to deliver safety without compromising performance or debuggability.) From a native perspective, two things I would love to see with respect to Rust: first, a comment on Alex Light's work[1], as alternative allocators like libumem are often essential for debuggability. Second, I would love to see the applicability of native techniques like postmortem object type identification[2] to Rust. If that "just works" it would be reason alone to seriously evaluate Rust! [1] http://scialex.github.io/reenix.pdf…

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