About me
Hi I'm Manank, from Ahmedabad, currently working at Arista Networks. I like computer systems, compilers (I often spend my time looking at assembly generated by various compilers and differences between them, like clang and gcc, sometimes clang/gcc and rust),
Assembly, Operating Systems(I also spend my time following some linux kernel mailing lists), system performance and optimization. I'm fascinated by the history of Computers in general, things like the
evolution of unix from when people from bell labs were working on multics, and the evolution of C and linux into what it is today. In my free time, I rice up my desktop setup(I use arch btw), try
to bring absolutely anything I can in the terminal, surf hackernews, lwn and reddit etc. Currently Rust has piqued my interest, so in my free time, I find myself comparing Rust and C, in aspects like Runtime speed, memory footprint, compiler errors, developer productivity etc, and I am Impressed.
Hobbies
I like reading books, both technical(favourates include The C Programming Language, and The Linux Device Drivers and others) and fiction(favourates include Veronika Decides to Die, The Honest Truth etc). I also like Photography, I have a Nikon D5300, a kit lens and 70-300 zoom lens.