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Phil Pearl's Blog

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Phil Pearl writes about Go, performance, data structures, and software engineering.

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Homepage: https://philpearl.github.io

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  • Swissing a table #Go #Programming #SoftwareEngineering

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    Apr 24, 2026

  • I stan clearing maps, no cap #Go #Performance #DataStructures

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    Nov 29, 2024

  • Dumb ways to die: Random Values in Pointers #Go #Programming #SoftwareEngineering

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    Aug 30, 2024

  • What is a Go function variable? #Go #Programming #SoftwareEngineering

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    Apr 16, 2023

  • Breaking Printf #Go #Programming #SoftwareEngineering

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    Nov 7, 2021

  • Faster time parsing #Go #Performance #SoftwareEngineering

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    Oct 1, 2021

  • Context #Go #SoftwareEngineering #Programming

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    Apr 27, 2021

  • It ain't necessarily slow #Go #Performance #SoftwareEngineering

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    Jun 16, 2020

  • []byte versus io.Reader #Go #Programming #SoftwareEngineering

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    May 23, 2020

  • Nil versus empty slices #Go #Programming #SoftwareEngineering

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    Apr 25, 2020

  • Search for a new JSON: jsoniter #Go #SoftwareEngineering #Performance

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    Apr 12, 2020

  • Examining Evil #Go #SoftwareEngineering #Performance

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    Jan 25, 2020

  • Rebel Go: Forking encoding/json #Go #Programming #SoftwareEngineering

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    Nov 17, 2019

  • Good Go: Contributing to encoding/json #Go #Programming #SoftwareEngineering

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    Nov 15, 2019

  • Bad Go: Adventures with JSON marshalling #Go #Programming #SoftwareEngineering

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    Oct 5, 2019

  • Bad Go: guessing #Go #Programming #SoftwareEngineering

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    Sep 20, 2019

  • Bad Go: not sizing slices #Go #Programming #Performance

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    Sep 5, 2019

  • Bad Go: frivolous Sprintf #Go #Programming #SoftwareEngineering

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    Sep 1, 2019

  • Bad Go: pointer returns #GoLang #Programming #SoftwareEngineering

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    Aug 30, 2019

  • Bad Go: slices of pointers #Go #Programming #SoftwareEngineering

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    Aug 30, 2019

  • Kubernetes' dirty endpoint secret and Ingress #Go #Kubernetes #DevOps

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    Jul 26, 2019

  • Go interfaces, but at what cost? #GoLang #SoftwareEngineering #Programming

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    Jul 6, 2019

  • JSON and embedding #Go #SoftwareEngineering #DataStructures

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    Mar 10, 2019

  • The why of Go strings #Go #Programming #SoftwareEngineering

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    Mar 10, 2019

  • Further Dangers of Large Heaps in Go #Go #Performance #SoftwareEngineering

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    Nov 15, 2018

  • bytes.Buffer revisited #Go #Programming #Performance

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    Sep 2, 2018

  • Go in a scratch VM #Go #Programming #SoftwareEngineering

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    Jun 4, 2018

  • A container image in 60* lines of Go #Go #SoftwareEngineering #DevOps

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    Apr 29, 2018

  • What's all that memory for? #Go #Performance #SoftwareEngineering

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    Apr 17, 2018

  • GC is bad and you should feel bad #Go #Performance #SoftwareEngineering

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    Jan 24, 2018