Alexandre Allaire's Page

I'm currently an undergrad in computer science and economics at McGill University.

You can view my resume here

Some Code

• A WebSocket implementation in Python, with a Berkeley style interface. ->
• A toy network protocol written for my networks class.  ->
• Gini, a software router I worked on for networks. We had to implement TCP and UDP.  ->

Interesting Links

• A good explanation of the deferred acceptance aglorithm, relevant to the 2012 Nobel prize in economics.
• This guy has an interesting piece on writing a compiler, starting with the backend (code generation) first, in ruby.
• Multiline anonymous functions in python, implemented using introspection and with.
• A paper on abolishing patents by two economists at the St. Louis Fed.
• Avoiding slow copy operations in Python using the buffer interface.

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