Airport failure; fast code execution
Nov. 24th, 2024 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcOn one of my work trips to London, EasyJet failed somewhat for the departure back home. They called us to the gate for the delayed flight far too early, especially given that the gate was small with hardly any seats. After having our boarding passes checked, we all got to stand in a small area watching the arriving passengers disembark, then continued standing for much longer while some system loudly played the
For the same departure, it took quite some time to even get airside because security kept stopping altogether for no obvious reason; the staff and passengers would stand around, waiting for the music to restart or whatever.
An interesting thing I learned on the work trip was about BCPL, an ancestor of C. I may be misconstruing some details but the approximate story is that its simple compact bytecode is such that the interpreter core and your bytecode programme together may run even faster than a straight machine code version of your programme because they fit better into the processor's level-one cache. It seems plausible though I couldn't find a confirmatory reference at a glance.
last callannouncement for the flight over and over and over again. Talking to somebody else afterward, they did the same for another flight.
For the same departure, it took quite some time to even get airside because security kept stopping altogether for no obvious reason; the staff and passengers would stand around, waiting for the music to restart or whatever.
An interesting thing I learned on the work trip was about BCPL, an ancestor of C. I may be misconstruing some details but the approximate story is that its simple compact bytecode is such that the interpreter core and your bytecode programme together may run even faster than a straight machine code version of your programme because they fit better into the processor's level-one cache. It seems plausible though I couldn't find a confirmatory reference at a glance.
