ShroudedNight

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by ShroudedNight 9y ago
> One of the advantages of looking at C code is that you can actually figure out in your head what the assembly will look like. One can do this with most C++ too. Though admittedly, non-tree virtual inheritance hierarchies, as well as
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by ShroudedNight 9y ago
I'm fairly certain that Lotus Notes is deserving of at least as much scorn for its mail rendering as Outlook.
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by ShroudedNight 9y ago
Having actively worked on a JIT compiler for CPython; in retrospect, JavaScript had a significant advantage over python: the expected requirement of one's JavaScript code to run more-or-less compatibly on a variety of interpreters. So
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by ShroudedNight 9y ago
>Microsoft needs to jettison more legacy so they can move faster. Microsoft would have significantly more freedom of action if they didn't repeatedly run roughshod over their users' personal agency over their devices.
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by ShroudedNight 9y ago
For those in the market for an X399/TR4 motherboard, have you come to any conclusions?
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by ShroudedNight 9y ago
> (the heap never shrinks) Given the rigour in the remainder of the exercise, this surprises me. Figuring out when to call munmap can be a significant part of what makes a heap implementation 'high performance' Also, I wonder h
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by ShroudedNight 9y ago
That's too bad, as none of those "things you'll need in the work place" sound like they belong in upper year computer science, and, at least in my experience, it was those upper year courses that made the degree worthwhi
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by ShroudedNight 9y ago
This appears to be an English version of [1]: https://lautorite.qc.ca/en/general-public/media-centre/news/...
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by ShroudedNight 9y ago
Article: https://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html
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by ShroudedNight 9y ago
The OpenJ9 infrastructure is somewhat different [for the better] than what I'm used to using internally, but I have only ever seen the shared class cache enabled when the -Xshareclasses [1] option is passed to the JVM. Do these number
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by ShroudedNight 9y ago
Disclaimer: I work on the IBM J9 JIT + OMR compiler team, so I am in no way a neutral authority, nor do I speak for my employer. 'Even' on Intel, we go back and forth on benchmarks, depending on what each side is focusing on. Som
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by ShroudedNight 10y ago
From the point of view of the ISO, my understanding is that they consider it to only have a single standard, with newer versions completely subsuming the existing one. I would actually argue that if C++ has a standards problem, it's
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by ShroudedNight 10y ago
Further to the parent, though it moves away from C++, Pat also teaches an advanced data structures course for which the notes and assignments are available: http://cglab.ca/~morin/teaching/5408/ https:/
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by ShroudedNight 10y ago
By what objective standard do you make this claim? As it stands, your comment comes across as flippantly disrespectful and totally void of empathy for those who's lives are actively and continuously harmed by that sort of anxiety; that
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by ShroudedNight 10y ago
Will there be attempts to hide system call patterns from intrusion detection / prevention systems if they take off? Probably, yes: https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/mimicry.pdf Will they work? Maybe:
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by ShroudedNight 10y ago
>Today it's more common for multiplayer to only be broken in a limited set of ways, instead of "we are hacking away at a fundamentally wrong architecture for this problem". While true generally, that doesn't preclude
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by ShroudedNight 10y ago
I got this information second hand, but for what it's worth: There was a graduate student at my university that was well known and highly regarded for his stellar software engineering skills. At one point he took a job writing a miss
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by ShroudedNight 11y ago
We [IBM JIT for J9 team] use WinDBG as part of our tools to debug problems that show up on Windows.