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by copx 12y ago
The number is not that high at all. I only see 1,289 open issues. To compare the D issue tracker has 3,677 open issues right now and the D user and developer community is tiny compared to the Go community. Also note that "issue" d
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by copx 12y ago
Well I only noticed how much less efficient the "functional" code is, downright wasteful even. And nobody is going to tell me that this: def move_cars(): for i, _ in enumerate(car_positions): if random() > 0.3:
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by copx 12y ago
If I could be sure that LuaJIT has access to all the memory the GC can efficiently handle I would be happy. Again the problem is that LuaJIT may only be able to allocate a few MB or even no memory at all on a desktop system where the user s
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by copx 12y ago
Pall is thinking about how to create the most efficient implementation here and of course compiling to LuaJIT bytecode is not optimal there. However compiling to JVM bytecode is not optimal for any language except Java either, yet everyone
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by copx 12y ago
I love LuaJIT but I am starting to feel seriously uncomfortable about its memory limitations. 64-bit LuaJIT can only use memory allocated within the first 2 GB. Mainstream desktop systems consume more and more memory so by the time you fire
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by copx 12y ago
>I would almost term it as a permanent research platform for FreeBSD DragonFly BSD was forked from FreeBSD because of fundamental design disagreements between Matthew Dillon and the rest of the FreeBSD developers. Thus I doubt that the c
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A tale of sunk allocation(luatime.org)
11 points by copx 12y ago|0 comments
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by copx 12y ago
> Your profile needs to tell you where, what, and how much you're allocating. Which languages offer such advanced profilers, though? I am using Lua (a GCed language) right now, and I am not aware of any Lua profiler which profiles a
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D’s Garbage Collector Problem(pointersgonewild.wordpress.com)
110 points by copx 12y ago|53 comments
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by copx 12y ago
> #include <pthread.h> That is not "pure C". "pthread.h" (POSIX threads) is not part of the C language standard, it is a system-specific header commonly found on UNIX systems. Windows has a different threading s
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OCaml 4.02 Released(caml.inria.fr)
4 points by copx 12y ago|0 comments
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by copx 12y ago
I do not see a double standard. There is a fundamental difference between PHP and C++. PHP was simply a bad design, needlessly ugly. In contrast, the design of C++ was constrained by the goals of - Compatibility with C (and later previous C
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by copx 12y ago
>Unless you're a mathematician or theoretical physicist [...] ..or Dwarf Fortress player ;)
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by copx 12y ago
>Lua has a much worse STW garbage collector and it's commonly used in games. No, Lua's current GC is better for games. It is an incremental GC. For example World of Warcraft originally had performance issues caused by the stand
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Allocation Styles(sites.google.com)
2 points by copx 12y ago|0 comments
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by copx 12y ago
Israel has absolutely no interest in crushing Hamas. Even before Iron Dome Hamas never posed a real threat to Israel. Hamas is in fact way more valuable to Zionists than Iron Dome. It would be a catastrophe for Netanyahu and company if all
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by copx 12y ago
> Caml uses non-deterministic garbage collection, whereas python mostly uses reference counting (in CPython). This is another case where the first system was safer in one aspect. I certainly would not call CPython's memory managemen
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by copx 12y ago
>I'm pretty convinced that the few games making money have a limited life expectancy even there. They have made money for more than half a decade and new games are released and sold all the time. Dig through the site I linked (Big F
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by copx 12y ago
>And in a lot of ways, the audience was always small, even in RPGMaker's prime. To me, that was the biggest setback. If I was going to pour 100+ hours into making a game, I would have wanted people to play it. Preferably, a lot of p
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F# – Discount Code for C# Developers (blog.jaywayco.co.uk)
4 points by copx 12y ago|0 comments
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by copx 12y ago
I wonder how they deal with D's archaic non-concurrent, non-incremental, non-local, stop-the-world GC. But then Unity uses an old version of Mono right? If I recall correctly it uses a similar GC and having played Unity based games I c
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Dash, An Open-Source Game Engine coded in D(forum.dlang.org)
1 points by copx 12y ago|1 comments
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by copx 12y ago
>You're doing harm by spreading misinformation. Blame AdaCore. I based my statement on the information on their website [1]. They certainly try to convince people that you have to buy GNAT Pro if you want to build non-GPL compatible
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by copx 12y ago
This is the key sentence in the article: >However, 90% of Swiss workers earn well above the proposed minimum and are already among the highest paid in the world.
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by copx 12y ago
C's standard library is meant to be small and only include essential things. I remember the C99 standard being widely criticized for including support for complex numbers, a feature considered to be special purpose and thus unfit for t
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by copx 12y ago
>I think it is helped by having a FOSS reference compiler (GNAT) It should be noted that the free version of said compiler may only be used to produce software released under a GPL compatible license. This is unusually restrictive and ru
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by copx 12y ago
Ubuntu recently decided to phase out its homegrown upstart init system in favor of systemd, which is backed by all other major Linux distros. Right now Ubuntu is trying to go against the grain again, this time with Mir. I think the most lik
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by copx 12y ago
Indeed, about 20% of the Netherlands are already beneath the sea level. Sea levels rise slowly and the Netherlands are rich. I expect the Dutch to simply build bigger dikes. In fact maybe they will not even have to. The current installation
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by copx 13y ago
I think your perception of what is "well-known" strongly depends on your age. For example neither concatenative nor declarative programming are exotic to me and I think many other older programmers. Forth (concatenative) used to b
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by copx 13y ago
Ken Thompson [1] is about as old as modern computing, and can in fact claim to have partially invented it. He is over 70 and last time I checked he was still working for Google. His most recent project well-known to the public is the Go pro

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