rcgorton

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by rcgorton 4y ago
Re: register windows. I disagree: code size wasn't the killer here, it was how DEEP the stack got. If your architectural register window spilled at 4 deep, then calls 3 deep were fine, but if you had a set of code attempting to itera
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by rcgorton 5y ago
No. Professional farmers had enclosed cabs even around 1975.
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by rcgorton 5y ago
Proposal: emacs is now irrelevant. Stabilize it, freeze and kill "future development". Oh, sorry, emacs 'development' is solely about emacs, rather than being about productivity. Too bad that emacs is more about DECs TE
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by rcgorton 5y ago
It is also incredibly useful for doing string scanning - look at strlen/strchr in various libc imp lementations
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by rcgorton 6y ago
First hit on google: SBLC == Stand By Letter of Credit. Clearly, Common LISP is not important/relevant according to google. It seems like "Common Lisp" implementations may be stuck in the mid 1980s and the implementors do no
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by rcgorton 6y ago
"tired and Cosmopolitan wired" This poster needs to be banned. Only relevant if you want an interpreter which runs an secondary interpreter, encapsulated in a .zip file.
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by rcgorton 6y ago
If you live the twitter life, you ARE A TWIT
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by rcgorton 6y ago
strcpy, strlen, strchr, memcpy, and their varients
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by rcgorton 6y ago
many MANY reasons VPs who insist on micro-managing technical decisions even though they really do ignore technical recommendations of highly skilled engineers. (Tom Hamilton, formerly of Digital Guardian)<br> VPs who refuse to share
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by rcgorton 6y ago
NO, NO, NO. Scala is NOT a 'great' language. It is implemented in Java, so suffers ALL of the performance issues of Java (and then some). I would be THRILLED to see a new, straightforward language (vs. C++) which is strongly typ
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by rcgorton 6y ago
Thank you - I will listen to the album
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by rcgorton 6y ago
Interesting thought. I was just listening to some Wendy Carlos. Not sure that the rest of the audience actually understands the reference.
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by rcgorton 6y ago
Feel free to downvote it. I expressed my honest, unbiased opinion. Until the OP, I had never heard of SOPHIE, so attempted to listen with an unbiased mindset.
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by rcgorton 6y ago
I watched most of the video attached to the article. It feels to me like a rehash of Tangerine Dream and Kitaro.
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by rcgorton 6y ago
I found some of the 'sizing' snippets in the example came across as disingenuous: if you KNOW the size of the file, mmap it initially using that without the looping overhead. And you presumably know how much memory you have on a
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by rcgorton 6y ago
I'm concerned about these 'benchmarks'. They are using nanosecond timing intervals. By design, CPU clocks have jitter to resist timing attacks. Secondly, a single clock tick is much more than a nanosecond. I would feel muc
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by rcgorton 6y ago
For an overview of static translators: https://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/dtj/vol4num4/toc.htm , article 9 ('Binary Translation')
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by rcgorton 6y ago
Most recent job was 60+/week. Probably closer to 80. A stealth startup. And yes, I did get burned out: total COVID isolation + hours + steep learning curve. (got let go)
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by rcgorton 6y ago
It seems to require a vacuum to spin. And then it needs to launch at Hypersonic speeds and then meets atmosphere. Instant encounter with a solid barrier == blow-up. I am thoroughly skeptical about the technology both on the incredible G fo
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by rcgorton 6y ago
It is now Alexia Massalin
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by rcgorton 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand why power is a limiter. Free solar power and heat during the lunar cycle...
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by rcgorton 6y ago
Well, Mr. Creosote is annoying
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by rcgorton 6y ago
The 'only' reasons (plural) that your laptop does not run Itanium: - battery life: an Itanium in a laptop would run for less than an your - too hot: Itanium servers ran incredibly hot due to power. A laptop would probably catch f
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by rcgorton 6y ago
The author incorrectly assumes: - completely rectangular - all columns/rows have the same 'length' Go try a pre-1950s 'pasttime puzzle' (wood). Most are rectangular, but certainly not some absurd same-length rows a
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by rcgorton 6y ago
This seems to be a legitimate business move on the part of Microsoft. What is not legitimate is The-Donald/Twitler objecting simply because one of his rallies was oversubscribed by US Tik-Tok members. He is being a petulant toddler (
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by rcgorton 6y ago
Did you consider NOT using NVidia? Both the capital cost and operational costs are huge compared to fairly high end Radeon cards (NO, I"m not an AMD employee - I merely choose based upon my personal budget)
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by rcgorton 6y ago
In the early days, there was no such thing as an editor. Punch cards were used for every separate line of code. And along came editors. I had no familiarity with mainframe editors, but DEC systems had EDT/TPU (and another macro scri
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by rcgorton 6y ago
I have multiple disagreements: "ARM is becoming the dominant architecture". No - while a valid statement in 2012-ish, the truth (since about 2016) is "ARM is the dominant architecture". If disassembling binaries withou
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by rcgorton 6y ago
A one pass compiler is going to generate code which is slower than a modern JIT/interpreter. Why is a one pass compiler interesting?
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by rcgorton 7y ago
What drivel. Make an artificial language which nobody uses, with a target architecture=X. Post it pretending that it is relevant. I Call BS on OP

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