A remembered set is used by a garbage collector to identify graph edges between partitioned sub-spaces of a heap. The canonical example is in generational collection, where you allocate new...

In a recent dispatch, I explained the whole-program compilation strategy used in Whiffle and Hoot. Today’s note explores what a correct solution might look like.being explicitConsider a module that exports...

I find most descriptions of WebAssembly to be uninspiring: if you start with a phrase like “assembly-like language” or a “virtual machine”, we have already lost the plot. That’s not...

Igalia is always working hard to improve 3D rendering drivers of the Broadcom VideoCore GPU, found in Raspberry Pi devices. One of our most recent efforts in this sense was...

Today, a tiny tale: about 15 years ago I was working on Guile’s macro expander. Guile inherited this code from an early version of Kent Dybvig’s portable syntax expander. It...

Time flies! Back in October, Igalia organized X.Org Developers Conference 2023 in A Coruña, Spain. In case you don’t know it, X.Org Developers Conference, despite the X.Org in the name,...

half-light Evolving ideas on "open stylable" issues, a new proposal. Recently I wrote a piece called Lovely Trees in which I described how the Shadow DOM puts a lot of...

CSS Spelling and Grammar features enable sites to customize the appearance of the markers that browsers render when a spelling or grammar error is detected, and to control the display...

The CSS Highlight Inheritance model describes the process for inheriting the CSSproperties of the various Highlight Pseudo Elements: ::selection controlling the appearance of selected content ::spelling-error controlling the appearance of...

#ghload {border: 1px solid; padding: 0.75em; background: #FED3; border-radius: 0.75em; display: block; margin-inline: auto; max-width: max-content; margin-block: 1.5em; box-shadow: 0.25em 0.33em 0.67em #0003; text-indent: 0;} What happened was, Bria

StyleSheet Parfait In this post I'll talk about some interesting things (some people might pronounce this 'footguns') around adoptedStyleSheets, conversations and thoughts around open styling problems and @layer. If you're...

I know, it’s old news, but still, I was pending to write about the GstVA library to clarify its purpose and scope.I didn’t want to have a library for GstVA,...