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by ash_gti 8y ago
Did you use gcc or clang or...? When I ran this locally I get: 0x7ffeee2a4808 0x7ffeee2a4810 0 0x7ffeee2a4808 0x7ffeee2a4810 0 With -O0 I get 1/1 instead of 0/0 so this appears to be a compiler optimization.
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by ash_gti 8y ago
This wouldn't be the first time Apple's had a perf/polish focused release. For example Snow Leopard had almost no major features and was mainly perf and polish over Leopard.
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by ash_gti 8y ago
I don't think they will stop using c++ anytime soon.
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by ash_gti 8y ago
Shouldn't this be marked 2014? The articles date is January 18, 2014.
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by ash_gti 9y ago
Citations? I don't know much about European handling of drinking water.
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by ash_gti 9y ago
Doesn't java have like a 90 day release cycle now [0]? Java 9 is EOL in March 2018, and Java 10 is EOL in Sept 2018 [0] 0: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html
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by ash_gti 9y ago
JavaScriptCore from WebKit does PTC, see https://webkit.org/blog/6240/ecmascript-6-proper-tail-calls-... for more info
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by ash_gti 9y ago
It sounds like they’re going to be using the RCS standard for those communications.
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by ash_gti 9y ago
I also think most companies usually invest their additional cash into things that they think will grow faster than their debt interest. Long term it makes more sense to grow a part of their company that will have a larger return investment
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by ash_gti 9y ago
I'm an iOS developer and I use it for writing iOS apps, testing, and managing my test environments. I have the luxury of assuming a macOS host though. I think the reason you'd pick it for a server language is because the strengths
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by ash_gti 9y ago
Its not terribly difficult to use swift on linux, theres a a working group trying make it easier for developers to use swift on the server [0] [0] https://github.com/swift-server/work-group
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by ash_gti 9y ago
The article was published on Sunday, December 20th, 2015. Although at the time this was published Atom 1.3 had been released, however I do not know when the author recorder their data. Atom 1.1 was from Oct 2015 so thats not to out of date.
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by ash_gti 9y ago
Hmm I tried using his tool on my Mac and it did not seem to work for any of the editors I tried (system vim in a terminal, TextEdit, MacVim). Does anyone know if there is an existing tool for these kinds of measurements on a Mac? Doing a fe
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by ash_gti 9y ago
One spec is about Async/Await and the other is a high level design approach for the language (which does include a reference to the async/await proposal, its under the section titled `Part 1: Async/await`).
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by ash_gti 9y ago
I was mostly just pointing out that perl6 might not be as slow as the comment you linked suggests. There seems to be something about using `perl6 -pe` that caused it to be slower than you’d expected. However, using a different approach its
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by ash_gti 9y ago
So, a fairly simple change to this will bring down the time to a few ms (86 ms on my computer) time yes | head -n1000000 | perl6 -e 'for $*IN.readchars { .subst("y", "n").print }’ Its slightly more complicate
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by ash_gti 9y ago
So, doing another simple change to my code brought the runtime down to a few ms. Doing: time yes | head -n1000000 | perl6 --profile -e 'for $*IN.readchars { .subst("y", "n").print }’ > /dev/null
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by ash_gti 9y ago
If you use master instead of the current release that example goes from about two mins to just under one minute for my machine. Also, if you use .subst(‘y’, ’n’) instead of a regex it runs in under 9 seconds locally. Thats still much slower
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by ash_gti 9y ago
They release every other week updates to Safari Technology Preview as well as daily builds of Webkit. Both include new features. They have blog posts about feature development as well here: https://webkit.org/blog/
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by ash_gti 9y ago
I think you only see fav icons in safari mobile in the bookmarks menu as well.
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Shrinking MoarVM call frames – 6guts(6guts.wordpress.com)
1 points by ash_gti 9y ago|0 comments
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by ash_gti 9y ago
Perl6 (with the MoarVM backend at least) should have proper async IO on both network and file IO. jnthn (one of the primary contributors to MoarVM) has a write up about recent work done to improve the system here: https://6guts.
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by ash_gti 9y ago
I wonder what the major use cases are for Flash Player these days? I assume some of the 'Farm Ville' style web games are probably in Flash still these days.
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by ash_gti 9y ago
It will likely have trouble with languages that don't include spaces around words. This will likely work for most latin based languages though.
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by ash_gti 9y ago
I'm not an expert in this area, but doesn't setting these properties only take effect in the next layout/paint cycle? I think you need to call getComputedStyle ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs&#x
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by ash_gti 9y ago
This appears to be browser specific. I copied his code-pen and used his first example in Safari (just using the `left` css property) and it was still 60 FPS in Safari (per debugging tools). I wonder how much variance there is between browse
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by ash_gti 9y ago
I work at Amazon and that's the explanation for our table desks we all have at work (unless you request a custom desk).
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Webkit Blog – CSS Grid Layout: A New Layout Module for the Web(webkit.org)
4 points by ash_gti 10y ago|0 comments
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by ash_gti 10y ago
UIKit and AppKit are pretty different, I don't see them convereging anytime soon.
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by ash_gti 10y ago
Isn’t it still a working draft?

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