Cursed Meals

Every kitchen has that one shelf, way in the back, with the jar nobody bothered to label. This is ours - war stories and examples of things that can go surprisingly wrong.

NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION

These are BAD EXAMPLES and their back stories. Learn from our mistakes, but don't repeat them.

Microcode and Subnormal numbers

A routine benchmark that got 3× slower, but only when it ran more than 12000 iterations. A ghost story about very, very small numbers.