marckerbiquet

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   by marckerbiquet 7mo ago

   I use my own text editor too, written using my own programming language. Fortunately Operating Systems suit my needs and I won't have to write my own OS ;-)
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   by marckerbiquet 2y ago

   Compilers have a huge advantage over other programs: they are fully deterministic since they depend only on input files, command line arguments and few environment variables. It makes bugs easier to reproduce and fix compared to interactive
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   by marckerbiquet 2y ago

   Agner Fog's optimization manuals https://agner.org/optimize/ are x64 oriented but are a very valuable resource for C++ and assembly programming.
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   by marckerbiquet 3y ago

   A possible reason is the use of Static Single Assignment (SSA). While it makes many optimizations easier, it has to translate its IR out-of-SSA to generate code. This is very expensive as it needs computation of dominance on the Control Flo