thecloudlet

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   by thecloudlet 4mo ago

   > The feedback loop hypothesis says that this is backwards. That, in fact, we’re going to find that SaaS is ‘hard’ and system software is ‘easy’. Just weird enough, my brain feels the same way.
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   by thecloudlet 4mo ago

   I think the greatest problem is documentation. I work on compilers daily. Sometimes I am forced to read directly in to Ghc’s code to just use as a developer. Maybe we should use Ai to generate up-to-date docs that are well organized like a
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   by thecloudlet 4mo ago

   Really like this language. I would love more if we can make developing production code easier.
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   by thecloudlet 6mo ago

   I fell in love with Intel One Mono for this reason
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   by thecloudlet 6mo ago

   Author here. The concepts in this article were the key to rearchitecting a module in our production codebase, which ultimately yielded a 10x performance improvement. Hope you find these notes useful!
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   From C char to string_view: The cost of abstraction in C++ strings(thecloudlet.github.io)

   2 points by thecloudlet 6mo ago|1 comments
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   by thecloudlet 6mo ago

   Sure! I have updated my post! Thanks for your reference.
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   by thecloudlet 6mo ago

   Thanks for the links, Nick! It's fascinating how LLVM relies so heavily on CRTP.
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   by thecloudlet 6mo ago

   Waiting for Rust experts.
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    by thecloudlet 6mo ago

    Doing bitwise operations directly on raw pointers is a fast track to Undefined Behavior in standard C/C++. Emacs gets away with it largely due to its age, its heavy reliance on specific GCC behaviors/extensions, and how its build
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    by thecloudlet 6mo ago

    Emacs internal part 2 HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259961
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    Emacs internals: Tagged pointers vs. C++ std:variant and LLVM (Part 3)(thecloudlet.github.io)

    80 points by thecloudlet 6mo ago|37 comments
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    by thecloudlet 6mo ago

    Thanks!
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    by thecloudlet 6mo ago

    Thank you for the kind reminder! I have removed the duplicate. You made a great point. Since the original authors are the same, the fundamentals of the Emacs C core are indeed highly compiler-optimized. I hope I can come up with a way to fu
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    by thecloudlet 6mo ago

    It’s not easy… I’m working to understand it. Recording the process through the way.
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    by thecloudlet 6mo ago

    That’s so cool. I did not know that.
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    Emacs internals: Deconstructing Lisp_Object in C (Part 2)(thecloudlet.github.io)

    126 points by thecloudlet 7mo ago|21 comments