Human folly for 02023-12-12

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• Pack format (git-scm.com):

  #Git packfile #file-format

• Git2 (crates.io):

  The git2 crate for #Git is just a binding to the C libgit2

• BLAKE3 (github.com):

  The #BLAKE3 hash on a 1-MHz #6502 takes 17.7 minutes to hash a megabyte of zeroes, which is about 132 clock cycles per bit or 1060 clock cycles per byte, and I guess roughly about 300 instructions per byte.

• Go git (github.com):

  "Go-git" is a #Git implementation in pure #Golang, without using C; this is what the #Gitea #forge and its fork #Forgejo use.

• Cargo (ayllu-forge.org):

  The "Ayllu" fork of Crescent is a #forge written in Rust, but using C libgit2 by way of the git2 crate, if I’m reading this file correctly.

• Git internals part 2 packfiles 1jg8 (dev.to):

  Explanation of the #Git packfile #file-format with Rust code to decode it

• 2022 08 29 gits database internals I packed object store (github.blog):

  more about the #Git packfile #file-format

• Introduction (harelang.org):

  "Hare" is a programming language inspired by #Golang but with manual memory management and pattern matching. And no goroutines I guess.

• Phi 2 the surprising power of small language models (microsoft.com):

  Smallish #LLM "Phi-2" supposedly has good performance. #neural-networks

• MFORTH (strangegizmo.com):

  "MFORTH" is a #Forth for the TRS-80 #Model-100 whose NEXT is only four instructions thanks to an undocumented #8085 instruction called LHLX. It includes an 8085 assembler.

• Virtualt (sourceforge.net):

  "Virtual T" is the #emulation of the TRS-80 #Model-100 used for most development of #MFORTH.

• Onlisptext (paulgraham.com):

  Paul Graham’s #ebook of "On Lisp".

• Bit gold (unenumerated.blogspot.com):

  Nick Szabo’s "Bit gold" idea that was the closest precursor to #Bitcoin.

• TTM (github.com):

  "TTM" is a programming language from Caltech in 01968 based on #TRAC, where function calls look like #<functionname;arg1;arg2;...;argn>.

• Tutorial+Introduction (tintware.sourceforge.net):

  "TINT" is another programming language based on #TRAC, in which the author has written an Emacs, where function calls look like #(def,a-string,the value)

• (dl.acm.org):

  The original #PDF #paper describing #TRAC, by Mooers spit and Deutsch.

• Pcg (pcg.di.unimi.it):

  This page by Sebastiano Vigna (of MG4J) claims there’s a Pareto-better #PRNG than #PCG32 and family, “fast scrambled linear generators”, such as "xoroshiro128+".

• Faqpdp11 (wolfgang-houben.de):

  The #PDP-11 FAQ, with a full list of PDP-11 models.