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Yikes I became dumber by reading that. Sounds like sour grapes, not sure why. He doesn’t even bother to prove any of his assertions.

gpderetta 5y ago
Must be some social experiment. Machine generated?
- OldGoodNewBad 5y ago
  This is why Urbit is rapidly becoming more attractive than the Internet. Can’t waste $75 per post.
- jandrese 5y ago
  I am also suspicious. The way the topic shifts seemingly at random is very common with GPT generated text. It has several correct technical details but they don't support a central thesis, another telltale sign of a GAN in use.
  - mamcx 5y ago
    It read sensible to me, but I'm not a native speaker, so maybe the writer is neither one?
malux85 5y ago
I stopped reading when they said its architecture should be more like Photoshop. This made me actually LOL. Has the author ever tried coding a photoshop plugin? Or read a PSD file from scratch, its a notoriously poor interface, bogged by bad legacy decisions and duct tape and string quick-fixes. The PSD file format is a meme and prime example of garbage programming. LLVM does use a plugin architecture, that’s what the whole IR system is. Comparing LLVMs architecture to needing to have plugins “Like Photoshop” is like saying the Starship Enterprise should have more rope because it can’t pull this donkey cart.
- OldGoodNewBad 5y ago
  As the other poster says, it’s a bot.
kkz 5y ago
I made the mistake to read a few other posts on that site, I feel my brain melting. What garbage.
mamcx 5y ago
I read it, and is not that bad, in fact the points it make are probably as close as non-controversial in how make a fast compiler. And LLVM is certainly major slow in the compiling pipeline. And very complex at it. What is unclear is how design "a photoshop-like plugin architecture" that allow to do all the optimizations it have, ie: How much the complexity of LLVM is related to the need to intermix all the optimizations and IF is possible to modularize them to the extend to make a lean core? (A better way to say the same is that it must be. like the nano pass framework, that it have more pedigree in this case than use of photoshop :;)
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago
  https://nanopass.org/ https://nanopass.org/
LinAGKar 5y ago
And which Intel Instruction set is he talking about? They have made several. x86 is the most popular, but it's anything but simple.

gpderetta 5y ago

Must be some social experiment. Machine generated?

OldGoodNewBad 5y ago
This is why Urbit is rapidly becoming more attractive than the Internet. Can’t waste $75 per post.
jandrese 5y ago
I am also suspicious. The way the topic shifts seemingly at random is very common with GPT generated text. It has several correct technical details but they don't support a central thesis, another telltale sign of a GAN in use.
- mamcx 5y ago
  It read sensible to me, but I'm not a native speaker, so maybe the writer is neither one?

malux85 5y ago

I stopped reading when they said its architecture should be more like Photoshop. This made me actually LOL. Has the author ever tried coding a photoshop plugin? Or read a PSD file from scratch, its a notoriously poor interface, bogged by bad legacy decisions and duct tape and string quick-fixes. The PSD file format is a meme and prime example of garbage programming. LLVM does use a plugin architecture, that’s what the whole IR system is. Comparing LLVMs architecture to needing to have plugins “Like Photoshop” is like saying the Starship Enterprise should have more rope because it can’t pull this donkey cart.

OldGoodNewBad 5y ago
As the other poster says, it’s a bot.

kkz 5y ago

I made the mistake to read a few other posts on that site, I feel my brain melting. What garbage.

mamcx 5y ago

I read it, and is not that bad, in fact the points it make are probably as close as non-controversial in how make a fast compiler. And LLVM is certainly major slow in the compiling pipeline. And very complex at it. What is unclear is how design "a photoshop-like plugin architecture" that allow to do all the optimizations it have, ie: How much the complexity of LLVM is related to the need to intermix all the optimizations and IF is possible to modularize them to the extend to make a lean core? (A better way to say the same is that it must be. like the nano pass framework, that it have more pedigree in this case than use of photoshop :;)

LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago
https://nanopass.org/ https://nanopass.org/

LinAGKar 5y ago

And which Intel Instruction set is he talking about? They have made several. x86 is the most popular, but it's anything but simple.