bitcompost

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   by bitcompost 9mo ago

   Your definition of reliability seems different to how people use the word. I think most would consider a program that was statically checked, but often produces a wrong result as less reliable than a dynamically checked program that produce
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   by bitcompost 2y ago

   It's decided by function use_register_for_decl in gcc: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/releases/gcc-12/gcc/f... With -g -O0 register is only used in special cases like using the reg
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   by bitcompost 2y ago

   I recommend doing some experiments before considering no register allocation unbearingly slow. I once tried running Gentoo with everything compiled -O0 and the user experience with most software wasn't significantly different. The amou
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   by bitcompost 2y ago

   Oh I believe in theory a 50Mhz CPU is capable of doing almost everything I need, but it just lacks the software optimized for it. I think a week to compile everything is too optimistic.
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   by bitcompost 2y ago

   While I love the idea of self-hosting HW and SW, I can't even imagine the pain of building stuff like GCC on 60Mhz CPU. Not to mention the Rocket CPU is written in Scala. I recently stopped using Gentoo on RockPro64, because the compil
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   by bitcompost 2y ago

   You might be interested in Arcan desktop engine ( https://arcan-fe.com ), which has a tui api for clients. It has been used to build an interesting experimental shell: https://arcan-fe.com/2022/10/15&#x