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by igouy 3y ago
Compare: A) I kind of think to myself: “Is this picture worth a dollar?” B) I kind of think to myself: “Is this picture worth my time?” Is this picture worth stepping out of what we are experiencing and doing the photographer thing. Compare
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by igouy 3y ago
Isn't that just a matter of using default camera jpg without bothering with post-processing?
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by igouy 3y ago
> the instant feedback kind of removed the magic for me. Which instant feedback? Sony SLT-A65 with "Auto Review" OFF means being shown what's in the frame, not what was in the frame last-time the shutter was pressed. Insta
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by igouy 3y ago
> smalltalk with message passing And then we look at language implementation and find message passing can be optimized away — The control structures that are so optimized by the compiler are the conditional selection messages to Booleans
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by igouy 3y ago
Maybe we'd all be happier with multi-methods https://nice.sourceforge.net/visitor.html
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by igouy 3y ago
> basically what happened here Pico benchmarks! https://github.com/zackradisic/rust-vs-zig/blob/master/bench... https://github.com/zackradisic/rust-vs-zig/blob/master&#x
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by igouy 3y ago
And previously Resilient Smalltalk. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27353255
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by igouy 3y ago
(From 2011, talking about 1997.) "… built for complete portability. Its compiler produces source code in a platform-independent bytecode. The bytecode is then translated at runtime into native machine code for the given platform. Ratin
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by igouy 3y ago
> I was talking about the benchmarks game repo code Why? The benchmarks game doesn't show energy use of programs. > use of boost is the entire reason As you know, the fastest C++ program shown on the benchmarks game website uses
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by igouy 3y ago
> … not … primarily an issue with means vs medians We're comparing averages, why would we bother so much about the cause of an outlier. > you linked directly to the C++ code for spectral-norm You had linked to the wrong C and C++
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by igouy 3y ago
Perhaps https://dada.perl.it/shootout/modula2.html
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by igouy 3y ago
I'm now thoroughly confused but it's of no importance. fwiw https://haslab.github.io/SAFER/scp21.pdf seems to have tables.
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by igouy 3y ago
> Here is table 4 by geomean Table 4 has 3 columns. I can only guess that is the Energy column because the numbers don't match the calculation I made for the Time column. Pity about https.
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by igouy 3y ago
Yes, the link grabbing seo claims the benchmarks game has something to say about Java and energy-efficient — in fact the benchmarks game does not measure energy use. No, the link grabbing seo provides the correct source for Table 4 — "
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by igouy 3y ago
Geomean is the same for ratio of averages and average of ratios. Geomean seems less sensitive to outliers than arithmetic mean and more sensitive to outliers than median.
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by igouy 3y ago
71.90 arithmetic average more than the 10 selected C programs. 6.52 arithmetic average more than the 10 selected C programs. Seems off because?
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by igouy 3y ago
PHP JIT ?
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by igouy 3y ago
The link is marketing for some consulting firm.
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by igouy 3y ago
To reduce the weight of outliers "average of ratios" and median: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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by igouy 3y ago
You seem to be looking at the wrong source code. The "Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages, SLE’17"authors provided this repo — https://github.com/greensoftwarelab/Energy-Languages/blob/ma.
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by igouy 3y ago
Last time I tried, only 3 of the 9 selected C programs seemed to compile as C++.
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by igouy 3y ago
Didn't open with ancient Excel. HTML? txt?
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by igouy 3y ago
The link is marketing for some consulting firm.
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by igouy 3y ago
The link is marketing for some consulting firm.
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by igouy 3y ago
No, this is "the actual benchmark" — "Source: Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages, SLE’17" and google finds — https://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pap...
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by igouy 3y ago
ods ? "How do you want to open this file?"
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by igouy 3y ago
Modula-2 is not included? https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/
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by igouy 3y ago
> Apparently oop as envisioned by Alan Kay was supposed to work like cells in the body that pass messages between each other and take actions independently. > Why? Who knows! It was never really explained… Perhaps "Design Princip
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by igouy 3y ago
> And to not have 'function' as a primitive… "A block is essentially an anonymous function." [ :x | 1 + x ] value: 2 ⇒ 3 https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/Block-syntax.ht..
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by igouy 3y ago
"In fact there's a JVM language called The Nice programming language…" https://nice.sourceforge.net/

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