Rust(y) week end

 Hi folks,

Finally out of the winter and FreeBSD 13 will be released in couple of weeks when I write. It s going to be a nice milestone, eager to update my boxes 12 release in due time ...

In the meantime as usual did my share of contributions (Mariadb various platform supports improvements, php 8.1, the various allocators out there, also got interested of improving fibers features on various languages like ruby and so on); but also with the prolonged lockdown, took the opportunity to dive deeper into Rust again, really appreciating this language, especially exploring/using the arm64 stdarch crate on the raspberry and the mac M1... pretty promising even tough not all intrinsics are available (yet). It s the rare exception when I avoid stable releases but go with rustup, most of the time it is working fine and build versions for android as well.

If you are ever interested (and nostalgic) of the Commodore 64, I encourage you to read this blog from Sarah Jane Avory, who made couple of games and is very knowledgable of this particular platform are truly interesting :-)

Wish you well and be safe ;-)

More ARM 64

 Hi folks,

The wind is battering strongly outside while I write, maybe proper time for intro(spection) :-)

Time flies fast as always, I just realised the FreeBSD 13.0 release is for sooner than I thought, lot of interesting changes expected. In my side been focusing on ARM64 in general mainly, among other things are porting few softwares to the Mac M1 while some projects still struggle to workaround stronger memory protections enforced (compared to its Intel counterparts), but things are progressing notably nodejs for example. In my side, still with microsoft allocators like mimalloc, been into php 8.x a bit more than before too ... in a less extent I ve been doing my bit in mariadb and its optional rocksdb support. Ah and recently I ported the "defer-accept" directive support into Haproxy which is merged by now.

Well, that is about it, when the lockdown are strong and or with bad weather I tend to record little music for relaxation :-)

Take care in the meantime.