I gave an overview talk on the Linux kernel at work today for a departmental seminar. Lots of people showed up, there were some good questions, and I *think* no one fell asleep 😉
Slides are available here in PDF and
August 11, 2003
The dragon book saga – the conclusion
The dragon book is of course “Compiler – Principles, Techniques and Tools” that I published for sell or barter here and elsewhere. I ended up trading it with Oleg, in exchange for Peter Norvig‘s Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming and Paul Graham‘s ANSI Common Lisp.
Quoting Oleg: “I can hardly imagine a better use for these books – it’s like giving someone a kitten, you must make sure it will be loved and taken care of.”
trident patch in 2.6.0-test3-mm1
No response frmom either Linus or Marcelo to my trident patch yet, which is about as can be expected. Andrew Morton, the (future?) 2.6 maintainer, has picked it up however and included it in 2.6.0-test3-mm1. Neato!
Muli Ben-Yehuda's journal 