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A design pattern is defined as "general, reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design." The idea is that when you encounter a problem, it provides a ready to use template for helping to solve that problem. If you look at the Wikipedia article linked above, we then drop...
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As I was learning to program, Python lists seemed totally magical to me. I imagined them as being implemented by some sort of magical datastructure that was part linked-list, part array that was perfect for everything. As I grew as an engineer, it occurred that this was unlikely. I guessed (correctly) that rather than some sort of magical implementation, it was just backed by a resizable array. I decided to read the code and find out.
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[AI summary] This article explains the internal C-level structure of Python string objects, how memory is allocated and managed, and the specific string search algorithms (a hybrid of Boyer-Moore and Horspool) used under the hood.
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I made a Rust implementation of the Lox programming language introduced by the Crafting Interpreters book.
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