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an embeddable dumb heartbeat daemon in 260 bytes of RAM and ≈350 bytes of code

7 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2017-10-19 · latest 2021-05-16

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  1. …, http://canonical.org/%7Ekragen/sw/urscheme/ , http://canonical.org/~kragen/bytebeat/ , https://github.com/kragen/dumpulse , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2933619 , https://gitlab.com/kragen/bubbleos/blob/master/yeso ,…
  2. …just by listing "diagram.png heartbeat.png health-report.png" as dependencies of the "all" target. https://github.com/kragen/dumpulse/blob/master/Makefile
  3. …is sometimes good enough without further tweaking, but for, e.g. , the top diagram in https://github.com/kragen/dumpulse#dumpulse-an-embeddable-du... , you usually have to tweak stuff a bit.
  4. …and minimization kinds of things. I like Hypothesis so much that when I wrote Dumpulse http://github.com/kragen/dumpulse I added a Python interface to it purely so I could test it with Hypothesis . Which found bugs, of course, even though…
    comment by kragen · 2019-01-28 · in The Day I Fell in Love with Fuzzing
  5. …I often find that I can get things smaller with ARM Thumb-2 code than with the 8086. For example, https://github.com/kragen/dumpulse is about 350 bytes of code on most architectures, but just over 200 bytes on a big-endian ARM.
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    An embeddable dumb heartbeat daemon in 260 bytes of RAM and 350 bytes of code
    story by luu · 2017-10-26 · 19 comments
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    An embeddable dumb heartbeat daemon in 260 bytes of RAM and 350 bytes of code
    story by luu · 2017-10-19 · 0 comments