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# Works in progress

## 9front

- Atomics support

- Image cache improvements, removing the need for hacks like mk(1) safeinstall 

- Benchmarking suite and framework:
[repo](http://shithub.us/ori/sysbench/HEAD/info.html)

## Extensions

- C23-style integer constant separators: 1_000_000

- awk(1)
  - Using integers instead of floats as the base type
  - Adding bitwise operators as part of the grammar
  - Performance improvements, in particular wrt. strtod(2) and string allocation

## Games

- doom(1)
  - Full networking support
  - Actual manpage

- eui
  - Handle screen scaling on its own

## Alien software

- Wireguard support

## Alien formats

- pdf: searchable documents and replacement for gs(1):
[pdffs](http://shithub.us/sigrid/pdffs/HEAD/info.html)

## Research

- Improving locks, performance and API
  - look into futexes

- Binary awk(1): pattern matching on binary data

- Improve on acid(1):
see [streetLISP's lsd](https://git.sr.ht/~ft/sl)