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  2. title: Status update, September 2022
  3. date: 2022-09-15
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  6. I have COVID-19 and I am halfway through my stockpile of tissues, so I'm gonna
  7. keep this status update brief.
  9. In Hare news, I finally put the last pieces into place to make [cross
  10. compiling][1] as easy as possible. Nothing else particularly world-shattering
  11. going on here. I have a bunch of new stuff in my patch queue to review once I'm
  12. feeling better, however, including bigint stuff — a big step towards
  13. TLS support. Unrelatedly, TLS support seems to be progressing upstream in qbe.
  14. (See what I did there?)
  16. [1]: https://harelang.org/blog/2022-09-06-cross-builds-with-hare/
  18. [powerctl](https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/powerctl) is a small new project I wrote
  19. to configure power management states on Linux. I'm pretty pleased with how it
  20. turned out. It makes for a good [case study][0] on Hare for systems programming.
  22. [0]: https://drewdevault.com/2022/08/28/powerctl-a-hare-case-study.html
  24. In Helios, I have been refactoring the hell out of everything, rewriting or
  25. redesigning large parts of it from scratch. Presently this means that a lot of
  26. the functionality which was previously present was removed, and is being slowly
  27. re-introduced with substantial changes. The key is reworking these features to
  28. take better consideration of the full object lifecycle — creating,
  29. copying, and destroying capabilities. An improvement which ended up being useful
  30. in the course of this work is adding address space IDs (PCIDs on x86_64), which
  31. is going to offer a substantial performance boost down the line.
  33. Alright, time for a nap. Bye!