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This site is a collection of Massimo Nocentini's papers, notes, memos and source code.

The (aux fds sbral) module

Skew Binary Random-Access Lists, aka SBRALs.

 Posted on April 10, 2026  |  11 min  |  2177 words  |  Massimo Nocentini

A walkthrough of the Scheme module (aux fds sbral), showing how skew binary random-access lists support persistent front operations in constant amortized time and indexed lookup and update in logarithmic time. [Read More]
sbral  scheme  persistent  functional  sequences  indexing  trees  lookup  update  amortized 

Pattern matching

Scheme macrology: a generalized pattern matcher

 Posted on February 24, 2026  |  4 min  |  815 words  |  Massimo Nocentini

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pattern matching  macrology  interpreter  meta  circular 

The Wolfram Engine

Implementing the Wolfram Language everywhere

 Posted on February 17, 2026  |  2 min  |  355 words  |  Massimo Nocentini

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Running PostgreSQL natively vs into containers

A benchmark against a stress test

 Posted on February 6, 2026  |  3 min  |  464 words  |  Massimo Nocentini  |  Richard Uttner

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postgresql 

The (aux hansei) module

 Posted on February 5, 2026  |  8 min  |  1541 words  |  Massimo Nocentini

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The (aux nondeterministic) module

 Posted on February 5, 2026  |  18 min  |  3729 words  |  Massimo Nocentini

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Learning tests for Scheme

 Posted on February 5, 2026  |  4 min  |  697 words  |  Massimo Nocentini

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The (aux stream) module

 Posted on February 5, 2026  |  2 min  |  223 words  |  Massimo Nocentini

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The (aux unittest) module

Bootstrapping a unittest framework

 Posted on February 5, 2026  |  5 min  |  875 words  |  Massimo Nocentini

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TAOCP, Volume 4, Fascicle 6: Satisfiability

Literate programming, implementations and their containers.

 Posted on January 28, 2026  |  3 min  |  550 words  |  Donald E. Knuth

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satisfiability 
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