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comment by zimpenfish · 2022-06-20 · in Redbean 2.0 turned into more than a hobby project

…focus of the project. redbean runs on RHEL5+ (c. 2007) and Windows Vista+ (c. 2006) by default. See https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/#support-vector Lua is real nice and I offer support services too. See my email at…

comment by jart · 2022-06-19 · in Redbean 2.0 turned into more than a hobby project

Try this: git clone https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan cd cosmopolitan make -j8 o//third_party/python/python.com Then put Django in the zip under the .python directory. You can also use the `.args` file just like redbean to have `-m…

comment by jart · 2022-06-18 · in Redbean 2.0 turned into more than a hobby project

…need the fifty or so lines of the log. Since that tells me which system call is likely the culprit. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues Alternatively you could email it to me: jtunney@gmail.com Thanks!

comment by jart · 2022-06-18 · in Redbean 2.0 turned into more than a hobby project

next step is to use https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan to build the binary

comment by homarp · 2022-06-17 · in Bundling binary tools in Python wheels

…intent was to only use the UNIX APIs which I believe will be stable since they're much more public. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/426 New 2.0.2 release available on https://redbean.dev which includes the fix.

comment by jart · 2022-06-17 · in Redbean 2.0 turned into more than a hobby project

…issues with MacOS running 2.0? I may have just missed a step, but I started an issue nonetheless. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/426#issue-127445...

comment by elamje · 2022-06-17 · in Redbean 2.0 turned into more than a hobby project

The Fifth Bell System Interface, Community Edition https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/sysv/s...

comment by jart · 2022-06-17 · in Redbean 2.0 turned into more than a hobby project

…repository, we've always had a PNG file checked-in to cope with these kinds of situations. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/dns/dn...

comment by jart · 2022-06-16 · in Redbean 2.0 turned into more than a hobby project

That's one of our goals! We recently started porting libcxx: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/tree/master/third_party... This week we're working on getting the complex math functions in, thanks to Musl and one of our most productive…

comment by jart · 2022-06-16 · in Redbean 2.0 turned into more than a hobby project

…add branches, for things like bit overflow carrying in arithmetic operations. One example is https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/third_party... which I wrote to make the NSA curve much faster. I've been meaning to upstream…

comment by jart · 2022-06-16 · in Redbean 2.0 turned into more than a hobby project

…already took care of that for you, by rewriting the GNU runtimes. Also this, from a GitHub issue ( https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/354#issuecomment... ): > Probably related to #399. The recommended approach would be to use a…

comment by capableweb · 2022-06-16 · in Redbean 2.0 turned into more than a hobby project

I wonder how fast it is compared to djbsort https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/nexgen... and longsort https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/e011973593407f576d... djbsort is outrageously fast for 32-bit ints with avx2…

comment by jart · 2022-06-04 · in Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort

…expressing my opinion of your software makes you unhappy, that's not my problem, it is yours. [1]: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/11

comment by ghoward · 2022-05-23 · in Logging C Functions

…tests of huge existing projects that use libc, e.g. Python. Try running this on Linux: git clone https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan.git cd cosmopolitan make -j16 o//third_party/python That command will build Python and all its…

comment by jart · 2022-05-20 · in Logging C Functions

The Cosmopolitan Libc _start() function starts by intercepting the --ftrace flag. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/runtim... If it exists, then it opens and sorts of the symbol table from the elf binary.…

comment by jart · 2022-05-20 · in Logging C Functions

Here's the reference I use for VT100 ANSI control sequences: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/c6bbca55e9f977e386... I created this reference because there wasn't one available before that could be easily copy/pasted into GNU C or…

comment by jart · 2022-05-18 · in Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals

Hi I'm one of the people cited by the article. Fraktur is awesome. I implemented it in my terminal. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/c6bbca55e9f977e386... Now that unicode makes it easy, there's no excuse not to have fraktur!

comment by jart · 2022-05-18 · in Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals

…and uses reference counting. Have you ever seen a garbage collector that uses the NSA instruction? https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/tree/master/tool/plinko

comment by jart · 2022-04-09 · in The underwhelming impact of software engineering research

…I even put the little orange flag on my blog. https://justine.lol/lambda/#binaries See also https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan#support-vector

comment by jart · 2022-04-05 · in The cult of Amiga and SGI, or why workstations matter

…all the VAX/OS2/DOS/Amiga code from GNU Make and it ended up being 201,049 lines of deletions. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/commit/10a766ebd07b7340... A lot of what I do with Cosmopolitan Libc is because it breaks my heart how in…

comment by jart · 2022-04-05 · in The cult of Amiga and SGI, or why workstations matter

…Kilo editor or Linenoise) on how to build your own version of the `strace` command in pure C. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/tool/build/... If you monitor the system interfaces then you don't need to read the source code.…

comment by jart · 2022-03-25 · in Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more?

…is basically that. It also uses plain old GNU Make so it's not snowflake. Example build config: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/tool/decode... So far managed to port a lot of programming languages like Python including its…

comment by jart · 2022-03-15 · in I cannot write software outside of Google anymore

Shannon entropy. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/rand/m... You can even measure a program in terms of physics constants too.

comment by jart · 2022-03-14 · in Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)

Spoiler alert git clone https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan cd cosmopolitan make -j8 o//third_party/quickjs/qjs.com Build it on Linux but it runs anywhere. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/tree/master/third_party... Here's a prebuilt…

comment by jart · 2022-03-08 · in QuickJS JavaScript Engine

…For instance, rather than processing data at 16kbps it's able to do things like crc32 at 22gBps https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/d6a039821f927cc81b... and memset goes 126gBps https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/d6a039821f927c…

comment by jart · 2022-02-28 · in Lambda Calculus in 400 Bytes

Got you covered. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/examples/ru... $ git clone https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan && cd cosmopolitan $ make -j8 o//examples/rusage.com o//examples/hello.com $ o//examples/rusage.com…

comment by jart · 2022-02-07 · in Nim vs Rust Benchmarks

…on a physical computer running Linux should be 25µs. That's two orders of a magnitude difference. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/test/libc/s...

comment by jart · 2022-02-07 · in Nim vs Rust Benchmarks

…your platform after the first run, so it can be fast and efficient for subsequent executions. [1] https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

comment by mimimi31 · 2022-01-28 · in On self-modifying executables in Rust

…Bazel is nice, but these days I'm running a small scrappy operation, so I just use GNU Make. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/7064d736e3ded15087... I like Make since it's able to build a repository with 17k .o files, 80 .a…

comment by jart · 2021-12-21 · in Show HN: Lisp with GC in 436 Bytes

…Others: - C/C++ has linker to link all to one binary - CLI/webserver only https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan like https://redbean.dev . Same exe works on many x64 OS like Windows/macOS/Linux/BSD, it embeds .zip file and can read/w

comment by xet7 · 2021-11-26 · in Enigma Virtual Box – Application Virtualization System for Windows

…can see our latest progress at https://github.com/jacereda/cosmogfx and the screenshots are here https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/35#issuecomment-... which we're working hard to polish and get merged into the mainline. If you…

comment by jart · 2021-11-08 · in Why is Excalidraw so good?

> You of course have to choose your target platform for this (...) https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan (but, yeah, you probably want one version per target, even if hacks are cool)

comment by e12e · 2021-11-08 · in .NET 6 Released

…https://justine.lol/printansi.png Program: https://justine.lol/printansi.com Source code: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/tool/viz/pr...

comment by jart · 2021-11-07 · in ASCII Paint

…bloated either since the binary footprint starts at 12kb. See https://justine.lol/ape.html and https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan Best part is you can still use the compiler that comes with your Linux. All it does is reconfigures the…

comment by jart · 2021-11-07 · in Never update anything

…all its library dependencies (aka static linking). the super example of this is justine's project https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan it's pr fucking cool > Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-once run-anywhere language, like Java, except…

comment by grimgrin · 2021-09-27 · in Designing Low Upkeep Software

Check out Cosmopolitan which vendors all its dependencies. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan You can't use Node with it, yet, but you can use QuickJS if you `make o//third_party/quickjs/qjs.com` and `o/third_party/quickjs/qjs.com -m…

comment by jart · 2021-09-03 · in The Persistent Gravity of Cross Platform

This is one of the reasons why I've been building Cosmopolitan Libc. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan Alpine and Musl aren't radical enough on the bloat-free angle (since they don't fix root problem which is dynamic shared objects) and…

comment by jart · 2021-08-26 · in There is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image”

…discover we're using the "wrong" one. Because political winds change, but good engineering endures. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

comment by jart · 2021-08-24 · in IMF working paper suggests using browsing history in credit score calculations

…a walk in the park. It only takes about a hundred lines of code to create a proper O(n) parser. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/0b317523a0875d83d6... The Joyent HTTP parser used by Node is very good but it's implemented in a way…

comment by jart · 2021-07-31 · in Show HN: Micro HTTP server in 22 lines of C

…since it's the web server that reads/writes to its own executable zip file as a native process. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/f3e28aa192d433c379... Some ZIP APIs are designed in such a way that you can even use the POPCNT…

comment by jart · 2021-07-23 · in Zip – How not to design a file format

…iterations running at a couple of order of magnitudes slower before JIT speeds fully kicks in. [0] https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/nexgen...

comment by lhorie · 2021-06-24 · in Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS (2018)

…loss when building for -march=k8. If you build for -march=native then they get DCE'd entirely. See https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/bits/p...

comment by jart · 2021-06-12 · in The NSA Instruction (2019)

Already happened; https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/pull/185 (Add sqlite3 support to Lua scripts in Redbean) has been merged.

comment by paulclinger · 2021-06-08 · in Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C file

…You can help us fix that, because we're working on chibicc, which is like TCC but 10x better. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/third_party... It's not there yet. It can be built as an actually portable executable. I already…

comment by jart · 2021-05-26 · in Redbean: Actually Portable Executable Web Server [video]

…the two lockstep style. It's harder than you'd think. [don't click here if you intend to try that: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/tool/build/... ]

comment by jart · 2021-05-20 · in Undefined behavior in C is a reading error

…binary. There's also an example of how to build TUI panel applications in the examples/ folder. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/examples/pa... The canonical example of a Cosmopolitan TUI would be…

comment by jart · 2021-05-17 · in Cosmopolitan Libc 1.0

…have on each (yes, they are not the same) and what constants are even available on each of them https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/7cbc2bc0838a88ff46...

comment by jart · 2021-05-17 · in Dark Side of Posix APIs

It looks like the runtime has networking support. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/tree/master/libc/sock

comment by GranPC · 2021-05-17 · in Cosmopolitan Libc 1.0

…this, but this will cause problems when /tmp is mounted noexec, which is fairly common for servers: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/da8a08fd58324a87f6... I suppose this level of portability is more a feature if you're shipping to…

comment by nonameiguess · 2021-05-17 · in Cosmopolitan Libc 1.0