Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
I was asked on twitter about the current speed of the Self implementation. The request was for a method send benchmark so I wrote a simple one and compared against Pharo, a Smalltalk implementation. The implementation and technology behind Self is quite old in comparison to modern compiler implementations but at the time it was state of the art. I... more →
I've been following the Freenet project for many years, occasionally firing it up and seeing if I can do anything useful with it. I've been using it regularly over the last month and it has come a long way since I first tried it. It's much faster than what it was in the past. This post describes a bit of... more →
A question came up in the Self irc channel today about how to change the 'comment' string for an object. Comments are stored as attributes on an object. These are accessed using mirrors. A mirror for an object can be obtained using the asMirror method. The trait traits mirrors abstractMirror provides a number of methods that can be used to... more →
Alice ML is a functional programming language base on Standard ML with extensions to support concurrent and distributed programming. I first got interested in it back in 2004 when version 1.0 was released and used it on and off for a couple of years until development stalled. It's hard to believe that ten years has passed since that post! A... more →
A while back I updated the instructions to install NixOS on Linode on the NixOS Wiki. This post adds to this to include encrypted partitions. It's based on those wiki instructions and my previous post on installing NixOS to an encrypted drive. Some points to keep in mind when running a Linode with an encrypted drive are: more →