Edd Barrett @ebarrett@mastodon.social

ECOOP'19 call for papers: https://2019.ecoop.org/ -- This year's event is being held in London!

The deadline for Benchwork'18 talk proposals is this Friday: https://conf.researchr.org/track/ecoop-issta-2018/benchwork-2018-talks

@wingo I see you are a keen gardener! Got any good tips for keeping the slugs off my veg? I've lost several plants this year to the slimy devils. #notcompsci

An overview of the SpiderMonkey tracing JIT internals: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/SpiderMonkey/Internals/Tracing_JIT

Any programming language VM researchers on mastodon? #compsci #vms #compilers

Today I learned that on Linux a system call may not switch to kernel space: https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/SysCall/syscall-3.html

#rust people. Can I encode a rpath using cargo?

"It is a scandal, and I want repaired processors for free. I don't care if they are 30% slower, as long as they work to spec." -- https://www.itwire.com/security/81338-handling-of-cpu-bug-disclosure-incredibly-bad-openbsd-s-de-raadt.html

The MoreVMs'18 call for papers is up. Please consider contributing: https://2018.programming-conference.org/track/MoreVMs-2018

Using C99 bool with the Rust FFI is a pain: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47705093/what-is-the-correct-type-for-returning-a-c99-bool-to-rust-via-the-ffi

Via @laurencetratt on twitter: Today is the last day to register for S-REPLS http://soft-dev.org/events/srepls8/ -- we've got a good crowd already, but there are still a handful of places left. Free and open to all!