Well, everything is open source, I have a partial and very limited (but currently enough for my needs) linker for x86_64 and RISC-V 64bits (but written in plain and simple C which compiles with tinycc and cproc/qbe!).
I even have an ELF capsule for executables (for x86_64, written in assembly).
So it is out there, but not "tidy" (aka a wip messy tarball), as I said, I am not sorta sure about how to handle the in-process loader, which is beyond simple, but I still believe I can make it even simpler (yeah, not more gigantic external "interpreter"/"loader).
Once I am satisfied, I'll ship that to a nicely tidied GIT repo (but with support of noscript/basic HTML browsers, unlike ... you know which ones...).
This is actually a lot of fun. Never did it on Linux, but Windows PE EXE files make similar tricks possible. Windows 95 in particular was very permissive. Using a (very primitive, by today's standards) hex editor I tried making the ".text" section begin halfway through the header and bang! ..it worked, a revelation of sorts. I imagine today's loaders may be a bit more strict because of security but I guess you can always make your own loader :)
Very, very cool. Besides the top-performing models, it's interesting (if I'm reading this correctly) that gpt-5.2 did ~2x better than gpt-5.2-codex.. why?
> gpt-5.2 did ~2x better than gpt-5.2-codex.. why?
Optimising a model for a certain task, via fine-tuning (aka post-training), can lead to loss of performance on other tasks. People want codex to "generate code" and "drive agents" and so on. So oAI fine-tuned for that.
A tragedy, yes. I can't be the only old fart around here with fond memories of John Siracusa's macOS ("OS X") reviews & Jon "Hannibal" Stokes' deep dives in CPU microarchitectures...
Dr Dobbs was pretty good until almost the end, no? If memory serves me well, I recall the magazine got thinner and more sparse towards the end, but still high signal-to-noise ratio. Quite the opposite of Ars T.
Huge debt of gratitude to DDJ. I remember taking the bus to the capital every month just to buy the magazine on the newsstand.
I would go to the library on my bicycle to scour for a new copy of DDJ as a 10 year old.
I had dreams of someday meeting “Dr.
Dobbs.” Of course, that was back in the day when Microsoft mailed me a free Windows SDK with printed manuals when I sent them a letter asking them how to write Windows programs, complete with a note from somebody important (maybe Ballmer) wishing me luck programming for Windows. Wish I’d kept it.
That's great! Have you published it? If not, please consider doing so.