- Seattle Neighborhoods: Broadview & Bitter Lake — Thumbnail History (historylink.org)
The Broadview neighborhood bordering Puget Sound in northwest Seattle takes its name from the expansive views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains that can be seen from its western slopes. The neighborhood reaches north from N 105th Street to the city limits at N 145th Street, and is bounded on the east by Aurora Avenue N. It is home to Carkeek Park, Evergreen Park Cemetery, the Ida Culver Retirement Home, and Bitter Lake, which beckoned many of the first settlers to the area. It drew its identity from an amusement park called Playland that operated on the south shore of Bitter Lake for 30 years, beginning in 1930. The Seattle-Everett Interurban trolley line ran through the heart of the neighborhood, bringing people and goods to the area and hastening its development. Broadview, once forestland and rural farmland, today is a suburban home to 13,000 residents.
- How do modern compilers choose which variables to put in registers? (langdev.stackexchange.com)
This is a very broad subject. The problem of deciding how to map a program with arbitrarily many variables onto a fixed set of registers is known as register allocation, and it has been the subject of much research, study, and engineering effort since the very earliest compilers. One of the canonical approaches, graph coloring, was first proposed in 1981. Countless other approaches and variants have been explored since then, and I cannot hope to cover the full breadth of the topic in a single answer.