miniblog.

Have you ever wondered what happens if you hook up a lexer to a diff algorithm? I was feeling smart until I built it and saw the result. The longest common subsequence here is ( ) ( ) ; which is not terribly helpful. I'm going to have to look at proper tree diffing techniques.

I've always wondered why more compilers don't use parameters with basic blocks rather than phi nodes. I enjoyed this post discussing tradeoffs, including comments on how GHC and Swift model blocks:

I've always wondered why npm defaults to the ISC license rather than MIT. MIT seemed more well-known and similarly permissive. Turns out that ISC is essentially a shorter MIT!