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C++

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News3 days ago

C++26 Made Infinite Loops Legal and We Crashed One by Adding the Word continue

P2809R3 makes an empty infinite loop well defined, and compilers already backported it. We compiled five spellings of the same loop: two produce a real loop, three produce a trap instruction and exit code 133.

Sep 21, 20266 min

Repo16 days ago

bzip3 Beat xz on Size and Speed, Then We Found What Its Release Notes Left Out

bzip3 hit the Hacker News front page with 412 points and shipped version 1.5.4 six hours later. We built it, benchmarked it against xz and zstd on 100MB of Wikipedia text, and reproduced the silent data loss bug the release quietly fixed.

Sep 8, 20266 min