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jawbreaker.ioTransformative Texts: How Programming Writing Shaped My Understanding of Compilers and LanguagesHello and welcome to the podcast. Today I’m sharing highlights from a blog post that explores writing that changed how the author thinks about programming languages and compilers. He kicks off with Andy Wingo’s “a simple semi-space collector,” calling its core “tiny, extensible, and can be understood in an afternoon.” CF Bolz-Tereick’s “Implementing a Toy Optimizer” taught him to use a “forwarding pointer” instead of find-and-replace. In “A Knownbits Abstract Domain…,” he learned that “if Z3 can’t find a counterexample, the code is correct.” Chris Fallin’s take on register allocation proves correctness on each input, crashing meaningfully on bugs...2025-05-1701 min
Test & Code190: Testing PyPy - Carl Friedrich Bolz-TereickPyPy is a fast, compliant alternative implementation of Python. cPython is implemented in C. PyPy is implemented in Python. What does that mean? And how do you test something as huge as an alternative implementation of Python?Special Guest: Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick.Links:PyPyHow is PyPy Tested? PyPy SpeedPython Speed Center
Help support the show AND learn pytest: The Complete pytest course is now a bundle, with each part available separately.pytest Primary Power teaches the super powers of pytest that you need t...2022-06-2151 min