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> There was a talk back in January which made headlines due to its claims. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SoJR3sCaR4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SoJR3sCa
by tom_mellior 6y ago
> There was a talk back in January which made headlines due to its claims. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SoJR3sCaR4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SoJR3sCaR4
That talk has 3194 views at the moment. That's pretty obscure.
> Using your same link, you can turn off the optimizer and see that it follows C calling conventions--mainly so the debugger can follow each step.
If you change -O0 to -O3 you will see a lot of stack traffic, that's true. This has nothing to do with calling conventions -- there are no calls generated for the intrinsics. Rather, you just see stack traffic because GCC doesn't try to do proper register allocation at -O0. Nothing to do with intrinsics.
- kbenson 6y ago> That talk has 3194 views at the moment. That's pretty obscure. I guess it depends on the intended audience of this post? I might also find it hard to understand some of the context of a post poking fun as some trend in some knitting mailing list, if I wasn't a member of that list. I think by "made headlines" they might mean "made a stir in some of the communities I frequent". Given the idea of bloggers as news people, a "headline" is a blog post that gains traction in circles you care about...
- tom_mellior 6y agoYes, the video was probably passed around in a the Nim community. The featured article isn't directed at the Nim community, though. The author just misjudged the video's reach outside of their knitting mailing list.