Data structures are a pretty fundamental topic in computer science, and most people are exposed to them in a whirlwind fashion in school or throughout their career. This exposure provides precious ...

Recently I was working on a toy big integer implementation that is incredibly inefficient but fun to play with, and I ended up implementing the Karatsuba algorithm. Today I’m going to share some de...

In my last post, I had a look at how the reference counting implementation in the Objective-C runtime works and talked about some lessons we can learn from the implementation. Reference counting i...

As I’ve mentioned before, when I use a system, I like to know why it works the way it does. About half the time, this leads me down the road of reading specifications and design documents, the oth...

I like playing with different programming languages. I find that, much like spoken languages, using different programming languages broadens your horizons, and how you would express a concept in ...

In the good old days we managed memory directly - and by good old days, I really mean before mainstream garbage collection, shared_ptr<T> and its cohorts, and our beloved Objective-C retain/r...