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by igouy 4y ago
Data. You say "2nd only to C" but don't provide data. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all...
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by igouy 4y ago
fwiw https://web.archive.org/web/20150929064737/http://benchmarks... https://web.archive.org/web/20150104073800/http://benchmarks...
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by igouy 4y ago
> [The image is a snapshot…] Well, be sure to back it up. … Text doesn't crash… So don't back up the image snapshot, back up text, backup the Change Set: https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/The-Cha
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by igouy 4y ago
> in the long run And in the short run?
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by igouy 4y ago
There's been a lot of that kind-of thing, for example: "Gradual typing for Smalltalk" https://www.johanfabry.be/assets/allendeAl-scp2014.pdf
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by igouy 4y ago
Or is the equivalent a BMW M3 over a Fordson tractor? :)
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by igouy 4y ago
afaik Smalltalk implementations usually provide step backwards but don't "run backwards". "The stack of (framed) execution contexts gives a history of the computation so far. You can select any frame, view instance valu
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by igouy 4y ago
Depends what functionality you think "a time-traveling debugger" must provide, Smalltalk implementations usually provide something like this: https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/The-Debugger.ht...
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by igouy 4y ago
The code browsers? https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/ch10-ImageSetUp...
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by igouy 4y ago
> They may not support FP as well as Haskell or OO as well as Smalltalk… The Smalltalk Collection enumeration protocol was probably the first time I'd seen anything like (1 to: 100) select: [ :n | n isPrime ] https:/
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by igouy 4y ago
> … the caveat was no animal lineage was found… "… there were no opportunities to sample the markets to look for animals infected with SARS-CoV-2. Chinese authorities closed and cleared out the markets soon after the epidemic starte
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by igouy 4y ago
> The spillover animals (aka intermediate hosts) for SARS-1 were rapidly identified as civets in a wet market… I'll take your word for it. (A long "few years" — "The virus originally came from horseshoe bats, though t
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by igouy 4y ago
None of that seems at-all like the discussions I recollect from those decades. Who were those "certain advocates"?
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by igouy 4y ago
> You started with an absurd, inverse hypothesis. The lab that studies bat-borne coronaviruses had absolutely nothing to do with the bat-borne coronavirus that broke out a kilometer away… Where did I say that?
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> … want to conflate lab leak… And if a lab worker had become infected while field sampling captive farmed "wild" animals for the lab and brought the infection to Wuhan? And if a lab worker had become infected while buying capt
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by igouy 4y ago
"The sale of wild animals without permits in China carries severe penalties involving steep fines and imprisonment. The tick study that documented the sale of illegal animals in the Huanan market observed, however, that the sellers wer
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by igouy 4y ago
> Except neither bats nor pangolins were sold at the market. We know that because…? "Raccoon dogs, marmots, civets, mink, Siberian badgers and many other furry mammals that could have served as intermediate hosts for the SARS-CoV-2
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by igouy 4y ago
> a spillover animal "Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 on mink farms between humans and mink and back to humans" https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abe5901 Not what you meant? How long did it take
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by igouy 4y ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypothesis https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/theory
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by igouy 4y ago
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... " Milli benchmarks are not really hard Micro benchmarks are challenging, but OK Nano benchmarks are the damned beasts!" Slide 19 https:&#x
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by igouy 4y ago
Please provide a magic trick that will assign programs to "strict categories" in a way that no one will dispute :-) > … straightforward, idiomatic code… Even with tiny programs, once you ask for "idiomatic code" thing
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by igouy 4y ago
> This kind of benchmark is not BS, and actually would save you real money. And would cost someone else real money to do — so microbenchmarks ;-) > … they use gcc for their c compiler, where clang would probably be a better choice… h
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by igouy 4y ago
> … hard to take seriously… Even when we're shown "Benchmarks are a crock" ? https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... > Microbenchmarks are not a good replacement for system-
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by igouy 4y ago
Also gcc #9 n-body program was converted to Rust #9 — https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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by igouy 4y ago
There's an actual book — "Mastering ENVY/Developer" https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Develope... The fun thing is the way people could subvert and ignore the recommended deve
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by igouy 4y ago
Been and gone ;-)
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by igouy 4y ago
[pdf]
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Towards Understanding the Runtime Performance of Rust 2022(dl.acm.org)
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by igouy 4y ago
Further to Jtsummers reply, with ENVY/Manager "All code is stored in a central database rather than in files associated with a particular image." page 4 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering
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by igouy 4y ago
If only someone would contribute programs that used Ractors.

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