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Jul 10, 2022 at 06:31
Fascinating deep dive on Twitch deliberately constructing a 10GiB array to reduce the number of GC cycles in Go: https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2019/04/10/go-memory-ballast-how-i-learnt-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-heap/ (This trick is no longer necessary in the new Go 1.19 apparently, as it's added a GOMEMLIMIT environment variable.)

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Achievement unlocked: when trying to work around an Emacs bug with long lines and pipes: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6149#19 I hit a bug in Cask, the Emacs environment manager! https://github.com/cask/cask/pull/596 Software is hard.
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