Links

• 42 Years of Microprocessor Trend Data by Karl Rupp

• The Architecture of Open Source Applications

  1. Volumn I and II
  2. The Performance of Open Source Applications
  3. 500 Lines or Less
• Producing Wrong Data Without Doing Anything Obviously Wrong!
  • Changing a seemingly innocuous aspect of an experimental setup can cause a systems researcher to draw wrong conclusions from an experiment. What appears to be an innocuous aspect in the experimental setup may in fact introduce a significant bias in an evaluation. (i) UNIX environment size, (ii) link order.
• Matthew Austern's list of publications
  • Why you shouldn't use set (and what you should use instead)

System programming

• Excuse me son, but your code is leaking !!! on Dan Walsh's Blog, about FD_CLOEXEC and O_CLOEXEC
• Secure File Descriptor Handling by Ulrich Drepper, about O_CLOEXEC, O_NONBLOCK.
• A fork() in the road from HotOS '19.
• LLNL Tutorials
  • Introduction To Parallel Computing
  • POSIX Threads Programming

Compiler

• Old school strcpy(3) on modern compiler.
• std::reverse() a string on modern compiler.
• Run 32-bit ARM binary on ARM64

Time-keeping

• The Science of Timekeeping HP Application Note 1289.
• HP 5071A Primary Frequency Standard
• GPS and Precision Timing Applications HP Application Note 1272.
• Project GREAT: General Relativity Einstein/Essen Anniversary Test
• Leap Smear for applying leap seconds smoothly.
• Day of the weekday: Zeller's congruence, RFC3339

LZ77 and zlib

• http://zlib.net
  • http://www.zlib.net/feldspar.html
  • M$'s IIS http://www.zlib.net/zlib_faq.html#faq39
• RFC1951
• Mark Adler's post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20762094/how-are-zlib-gzip-and-zip-related-what-do-they-have-in-common-and-how-are-they
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_Huffman_code
• https://jvns.ca/blog/2013/10/24/day-16-gzip-plus-poetry-equals-awesome/
• Dissecting the GZIP format

Unix history

• Evolution of the Unix System Architecture: An Exploratory Case Study, Video from FOSDEM'18 by Diomidis Spinellis.
• A repository of Unix History and evolution

Maths

• Theory and Applications of Markov Chains to Finance by Kevin Atteson