jmp 0xSeattle

Wow! So that was one helluva flight. Actually, the flights were nice, since the Uni hooked me up with Quantas (I am a cheapskate and probably would have gone with a cheaper option if it were my wallet being genocided-upon by the airline industry). I finally got the chance to watch The Social Network and Tarintino's more recent Django Unchained. All I gotta say is that I was thoroughly entertained and I think I need to see more Tarintino flicks. Anyways, I am in Seattle for the Memory Systems Performance and Correctness (MSPC) workshop to present our research into garbage collection and region-based memory management, black magic, and the digital alchemical fusion of these two aforementioned dark sciences. Anyways, I think I'll go stroll around this city! My stomach cannot hold any more caffeinated beverages.
-Matt

Seattle and Nacho

Well, the paper my advisers and self have been laboring over was submitted and accepted to the ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Memory Systems Performance and Correctness (which is in Seattle this year). More so, I wrote the original draft (with some incomplete pieces). It ended-up being rewritten by my advisers (and a ton of things were added!). Needless to say, it represents hours and hours of work, and composes ideas from their genius. It was great to work on this paper with them, and I am humbled that it was accepted. I have been implementing code for ages now to represent these ideas, basically a combination of region-based memory management and garbage collection.

On another front, I have been working on more PDF hackery. I wanted to make a PDF-grepping utility. I have a basic implementation cooked-up but the key piece is the simplistic PDF text-extraction library that I wrote (note that it is not fully featured and does not account for all encodings and compression schemes). I present upon the world libnachopdf because it ain't yo' PDF. Well, maybe it is your PDF, but that doesn't matter. Get 'yo nacho on over here.
-Matt

To Beijing?

So, a paper myself and advisers have been working on, "Towards Region-Based Memory Management for Go" was accepted to the "Memory Systems Performance and Correctness (MSPC) workshop (See Session 3). I also have a "ticket" to Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) conference. I have been pretty up/down about being vegan and going. But, well, anyways... I am to leave tomorrow to go to China (about a 12 hour flight). Kinda nervous. Anyways, I'll try to take pictures, but I might not be able to upload them (due to not having a mini-B USB cable or proper SD-reader). But, I'll be in China, I should be able to find one of them some where!
Much love and peace, and Slayer!
-Matt