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moloch-hai
4y ago
That is pretty silly. Your eigen library had in it everything it needed to ensure its own safety, so anything more just added slowness. A check performed in a library, or a condition ensured in a library, is wholly as good as the same work
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For real programs, you should demand that the compiler hoist such checks out of the loop, which may then be vectorized the usual way. If the compiler can't do that by itself, a library should do it. The real issue is whether the inform
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An axis not apparently explored is reality vs. fantasy. Looking up press about Energy Vault, a fraudulent energy-storage company whose public shares peaked at $2.4B and trade now at $4-600M, it is very hard to find anything published that e
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It seems very diplomatic of you to say you found Rust hard to learn, rather than that it was hard to make Rust do what you wanted. You seem very clear on what you wanted to do.
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You can get those bugs when you are doing your own atomics, and your code relies on x86's relaxed memory semantics. It looks like their code is JS and Go, which buries that stuff. Services they use were already proven out on ARM. (Or,
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I have patched it to be harder to mis-read.
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The instructions generated make a big difference. Modern processor specifications commonly quote how many instructions of a type can be "retired" in a cycle. They can retire lots of conditional branches at once, or branches and ot
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To Management, you are either in a Cost Center or a Profit Center. In all advertising-supported monstrosities, only adtech and sales are profit centers. Literally everything else is a cost center. Everyone at Facebook and Google is in a Cos
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Is the Putin era waning? Seems like it might still be deepening.
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Usually "white terror" is supposed to mean anti-communist violence. Red terror is the old name for communists killing or maiming running-dog(+) capitalists. (+) What is the difference between a capitalist and a running-dog capital
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MongoDB Disbands Platforms Group
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