keldaris

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by keldaris 10y ago
I completely agree. The biggest reason I haven't seriously tried Rust yet is because, despite all the vocal pro-Rust opinions we've all been inundated lately, I struggle to name a single interesting thing about the language apart
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by keldaris 10y ago
Rust certainly seems to have a very enthusiastic (albeit small) user base. I'm someone who usually feels comfortable rapidly switching between a wide variety of languages, including unpopular ones (D is one of my favorites), but I&#x27
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by keldaris 10y ago
In my experience, -ffast-math has become vastly more useful over the last 10-15 years. I suppose this was a somewhat reasonable discussion to have in 2001, when most performance critical code still heavily relied on hand-optimized assembly,
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by keldaris 10y ago
I don't think you can hope for even that much. Rape has historically been systematically used for terrorizing the population in order to achieve military and/or political aims. An AI free from any ethical concerns could conceivabl
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by keldaris 10y ago
Hybrid-Fortran looks like an elegant workaround for an ugly problem, kudos for dealing with the storage order as well. Ultimately, it seems to me the only way to justify using Fortran for scientific computing nowadays (apart from legacy iss
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by keldaris 10y ago
I haven't used it myself, because I looked at it and saw that it's been unmaintained for over a year, has no adoption and requires ancient versions of CUDA and LLVM. The concept is interesting, but at this point the project seems
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by keldaris 10y ago
There are plenty of zero-cost C++ wrappers available, including the official bindings. Most people who use OpenCL from C++ tend to accumulate their own convenience wrappers over time. The rest of those languages have fairly easy interoperab
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by keldaris 10y ago
Not the OP, but a computational physicist writing a fairly decent sized codebase for a long term project, just went through the language choice and initial prototyping phase. I have extensively used Julia, Python, MATLAB, C99, C++98/11
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by keldaris 10y ago
This being HN, I'm hoping someone more competent than me in the area of CPU architectures can comment, but as a scientific programmer some of the details lead me to adopt a very cautious attitude for now, especially given the 95W TDP.
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by keldaris 10y ago
They claim AVX2 support, yes. No AVX512, but even Xeons don't have that yet (sadly).
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by keldaris 10y ago
In my anecdotal experience, h265 gets me 50-60% improvements in file sizes at the same quality for fairly low quality targets and the gains drop off rather quickly as you increase the quality. For videos where you don't care about the
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by keldaris 10y ago
As you already hinted at in your article, the choice of MSVC++ as the "best" Windows C++ compiler is highly debatable. GCC, Clang and ICC will all generate significantly faster binaries for your code examples and, in the case of I
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by keldaris 11y ago
This used to be a fairly universally held opinion, but recently I've begun to see fairly optimistic results reported in the literature (see [1] for an example study, unfortunately not open source). As someone who writes numerical simul
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by keldaris 11y ago
In my personal anecdotal experience, the opposite is true. After having smoked cigarettes for over a decade (I'm in my mid twenties) I switched to vaping and can't even smoke a full cigarette now, the taste feels disgusting and th
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by keldaris 12y ago
The idea itself seems nice, but it remains to be seen how useful it will be beyond learning basic language concepts and syntax. However, I would like to compliment your website. I run an extremely restricted browser that blocks most JS, coo