H. Mijail's Blog

After a couple of too-close-together performance-competition-between-browsers thingies, I decided to make my very own quick & dirty benchmark of current browsers. Webkit-based at least, although soon I'd like to at least try again Firefox; it's been months since I abandoned it for Webkit itself, due to a multitude of small problems, some of them caused by myself (much more than a hundred tabs always open, lots of extensions to lessen the load) but magnified by Firefox itself (extensions failing, slowness even when with much more reasonable numbers of tabs, sluggish Flash performance, problematic Java)... In fact it's a great moment to make this kind of test, since Safari 4.0.2 has just appeared, Stainless 0.6.5 too, and ... well, WebKit has a recent nightly (r45641). Chrome is the available one right now: 3.0.192 (developer release) A surprise has been to learn that Opera seems to have abandoned the race some time ago (ten times slower, javascript-wise, than any of th...

Smart Crash Reporter es un Input Manager creado por Unsanity (creadores de los "haxies"). La historia completa está en http://daringfireball.net/2006/01/smart_crash_reports . El resumen de la historia en español es que los Input Managers son en teoría una forma de añadir al sistema formas de entrada de texto. Pero en la práctica, los Input Managers pueden hacer muchas más cosas. Se cargan automáticamente en cualquier programa y pueden alterarlo (en memoria, al ejecutarse; los programas no son alterados en disco). Un Input Manager conocido es (era?) Pith Helmet, que añade capacidades anti-anuncios a Safari. Así que los Input Managers son muy potentes, y también pueden ser muy peligrosos. Hay quien dice que son el sueño de cualquier programador de malware, y de hecho Leopard trajo como mejora de seguridad serias restricciones al uso de Input Managers. Smart Crash Reporter es otro Input Manager típico, y mosqueante porque suele ser instalado por varias aplicaciones sin avisar ...

...and looks like the job of the programmer is to avoid being he himself another level (the last one?) of indirection. (at least the interesting programmer jobs) (And I have a feeling that that is the reason I should get to finish the "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" course) (On the other hand... overengineering?)