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- by Raymond Chen
If the process is about to exit, the correct garbage collection strategy is to do nothing, because the OS will reclaim everything faster than you ever could.
- by Connor Stack
Build a SQLite clone from scratch in C, and after that you'll never write a SELECT statement without knowing exactly what the machine is doing underneath.
- by Eli Bendersky
When you set a breakpoint, the debugger literally overwrites your instruction with a trap, and the rest of the trick is just ptrace and knowing when to put the original byte back.