The Fastest Mutexes

I just learned 42 programming languages this month to build a new syntax highlighter for llamafile. I feel like I'm up to my eyeballs in programming languages right now. Now that it's halloween, I thought I'd share some of the spookiest most surprising syntax I've seen.

Cosmopolitan's Windows support may finally be feature complete. It's now possible to send signals between processes using kill() on Windows. Ten new torture test programs have been written to tease out more fixes and offer a high level of assurance that signal handling is correct. Some of these tests are good...

In a world of infinite automation and infinite surveillance, survival is going to depend on being the least boring person. Over my career I've written and attached my name to thousands of public source code files. I know they are being scraped from the web and used to train AIs. But if I ask something like...

I just wrote 84 new matrix multiplication kernels for llamafile which enable it to read prompts / images faster. Compared to llama.cpp, prompt eval time with llamafile should go anywhere between 30% and 500% faster when using F16 and Q8_0 weights on CPU. The improvements are most dramatic for ARMv8.2+ (e.g....

I spent the last month working with Mozilla to launch an open source project called llamafile which is the new best way to run an LLM on your own computer. So far things have been going pretty smoothly. The project earned 5.6k stars on GitHub, 1073 upvotes on Hacker News, and received press coverage from ...