BenoitP

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by BenoitP 10y ago
> painful work of removing WebKit’s previous use of copying Do I understand correctly that the hard work was done, and this is a regression?
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by BenoitP 10y ago
On an unrelated topic, will TruffleRuby have all the OpenJDK's GC algorithms available? I'm thinking of Shenandoah specifically. I understand they depend on inserting barriers with JVMCI, so I'm hopeful for compatibility. How
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by BenoitP 10y ago
From my limited understanding: JITs can take into account the actual data being processed. And most importantly here, its size. Knowing the size will help with making chunks of work fit into L1, L2, L3 caches. Creating sensible SIMDs operat
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by BenoitP 10y ago
Yup. Same thing with Spark Framework wrt Apache Spark. Seems like a curse targeting game-changing projects written in Scala.
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by BenoitP 10y ago
> GCC and LLVM And two JVMs are on the way.
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by BenoitP 10y ago
My two cents: * It is hardware's linux moment. The entry cost is low, everything is customizeable to your client's needs, everything can be inspected and modified. Everybody can copy-paste a SoC, do some plumbing; and hit the grou
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by BenoitP 10y ago
It reminds of Gov Schwarzenegger recently saying he doesn't exist in a vacuum, and that mentors are key. A large part of these are not "do X"; they are in "get Y person to show me how they do X". We can be thankful
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by BenoitP 10y ago
Trying to make sense of what the future will be made of, and how to be an early user of the value unearthed. So basically the silicon is hitting some walls; and the only way to provide more performance is through hardware specialization. Wh
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by BenoitP 10y ago
Oh, definitely. And Whatsapp is able to maintain 2.8M connections, > 200k msgs/sec on one machine with Erlang [1]. I meant not in an embarrassingly parallel worload. The 40k would be with interacting with each other in realtime, and
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by BenoitP 10y ago
> Would be interesting to have a raw comparison to the JVM e.g. to the new GC1 And with Shenandoah [1] too! Also, everyone talks about heap sizes; which is kind of the size of the problem if you let it accumulate. I would be much more in
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by BenoitP 10y ago
I hear the Truffle+Graal combination is getting very good results about Ruby. Here is video about it (pointed to the missing-method example): [1] They're hitting 35x in some benchmarks [2]. Most benefits being in workloads where Ruby h
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by BenoitP 10y ago
An Intel VP mentioned it at JavaOne. He said they would provide FPGA support for OpenJDK. One central use case he mentioned would be big data & machine learning on Spark. It was very pleasant surprise! The JVM world usually does not a h
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by BenoitP 10y ago
I wonder if there is a market for a quickscan of a flat's interior+exterior for a realtor; that you later send to a 3D color printing service, playmobil scale. Maybe giving potential customers a scale model would help them materialize
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by BenoitP 10y ago
To quote from the Valve Handbook [1]: > We value “T-shaped” people. That is, people who are both generalists (highly skilled at a broad set of valuable things—the top of the T) and also experts (among the best in their field within a nar
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by BenoitP 10y ago
Pretty commercial talk, but it shows how hardware is evolving in the post-Moore's-law era. Highlight at 25:50: If understand correctly Intel chips will have reconfigurable FPGA SoCs, with support in OpenJDK for talking to them. This sh
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2016 JavaOne Intel Keynote – 32mn Talk(youtube.com)
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by BenoitP 10y ago
Nice colors and resolution! I'd love to see one of these weather visualization sites overlay the live lightning strikes from http://en.blitzortung.org/live_dynamic_maps.php .
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by BenoitP 10y ago
In your blog post, you write: > I do data science freelancing. That is, I take contracts related to machine learning (predicting things, e.g. user growth of a company), data visualization (custom charts in D3.js), preparing and conductin
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by BenoitP 10y ago
> Maybe one day error messages will have explanatory power I firmly believe that closely integrating the raw ML internals with the user experience will yield tremendous rewards. The coding experience, with the stack trace debug experienc
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by BenoitP 10y ago
Posting my suggestion here: Since the HN community is data oriented at its heart, it would be very interesting to have everything out in the open, in real time, for users to have their own model of ranking. All the data: comments, stories a
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by BenoitP 10y ago
> a devastating blow to the sovereignty of EU member states This is bad, bad PR. Maybe let the EU citizens be the judge of that? IMHO, it is a huge no-no for a company to make a political statement, especially in a troubled time like now
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by BenoitP 10y ago
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12385232
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by BenoitP 10y ago
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12385232
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by BenoitP 10y ago
I wonder if common boring languages/runtimes, say Java/JVM, are easily amenable to making use of on-die FPGAs. Will we see a new generation of JITs emitting FPGA code?
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by BenoitP 10y ago
On January 2011 I read about Bitcoin as a lurker on HN. I thought it was quite a novel idea, but needed to prove its worth to the world. I didn't want to take part in it, use it, as I saw no direct benefit to me; and without an underly
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by BenoitP 10y ago
Very fun, but a bit stressful. Making games take a determined number of turns would allow players to rest. Also, displaying the score right along the windows would be nice. Other than that, great work!
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Low Latency New GC on OpenJDK: Shenandoah (talk by Christine Flood, 27mn)(youtube.com)
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by BenoitP 10y ago
I'd argue that in finding a subject for a startup, you don't want to find a problem. I mean, why would anyone want problems ? What you want for a startup is fertile ground. ------- Go to the nearest upper-middle-class person you
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by BenoitP 10y ago
Open source software can capture a large usage surface by the myriads of contributions they can accept. It would help fight the more general NIH syndrome, and maybe educate people towards having sound IS urbanization, architecture. I'm
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(J)VM Futures – John Rose (Talk, 45mn)(youtube.com)
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