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by nindalf 3y ago
> So why the meager numbers from cranelift then People are seeing 20-30% improvements thanks to Cranelift. Not sure why you think that’s meagre. > edge case It’s not an edge case but it is valid to say that the pattern of development
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by nindalf 3y ago
> Is it an unpopular opinion to say 75% of “a lot” is still “a lot” I don’t know if it’s unpopular, but it may be inaccurate. OP claims that they improved by 75%, so you probably meant “25% of a lot is still a lot”. > I would expect i
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by nindalf 3y ago
I benchmarked Rusts performance on 2, 4, 8 and 16 cores on several widely used crates ( https://arewefastyet.pages.dev/ ). Performance generally improved with the number of cores, but memory made no difference. All of these c
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by nindalf 3y ago
I benchmarked Rusts performance on 2, 4, 8 and 16 cores on several widely used crates ( https://arewefastyet.pages.dev/ ). Performance generally improved with the number of cores, but memory made no difference. All of these c
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by nindalf 3y ago
> Does some aspect address a development pain point of yours? I've worked in a company with a large codebase, but we did all development on the server. Devex teams automatically set up artefact caching so builds would be fast. I gue
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by nindalf 3y ago
I think this is unlikely to gain traction. I say that no to discourage you, just to explain. - The community has an instinctive distrust of closed source or a compiler from an untrusted source. If you’re familiar with the Trusting Trust att
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by nindalf 3y ago
Few reports comparing Cranelift to LLVM from this day old reddit thread [1] - 29.52s -> 24.47s (17.1%) - 27s -> 19s (29.6%) - 11.5s -> 8.4s (26.9%) - 37.5s -> 29.6s (28.7%) - this measurement from TFA. To put these numbers in co
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by nindalf 3y ago
Your account descriptions says "This account is no longer active in protest of Hacker News censorship." Funny, I've never had a problem with the way this place is moderated. One of us must be getting flagged ("censored&q
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by nindalf 3y ago
Did you notice that your comment is flagged and mine isn’t? That should tell you something. Up to you if you want to fix your behaviour though.
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by nindalf 3y ago
Look at the other response. So much better than yours. You just call me dumb, not much I can respond to there. And the rest of your comment is barely coherent, can’t respond to that either. Awful.
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by nindalf 3y ago
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that you thought so. I meant it is a widely held belief among most people. They would feel a stronger affinity for their ancestors from a thousand years ago than for their neighbour, if their neighbour look
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by nindalf 3y ago
Not the South of India. And they held areas in the North West that aren’t part of modern India.
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by nindalf 3y ago
At no point was all of modern India under one administrative entity until modern India. Even British India wasn’t one state, it was a patchwork of provinces governed by the British and Princely States. Modern India only came into being in
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by nindalf 3y ago
> a country can in some sense be a continuation of a previous one, particularly if it shares the same language and a similar territory. This is the sort of thing that’s true, but only if you don’t think about it deeply. People in England
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by nindalf 3y ago
It is possible for more than one language to be good. Both languages succeeded with their approach.
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by nindalf 3y ago
Would have been nice if they'd tested it on Safari as well. It's playable, but frustrating enough that you'd switch to Chrome.
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by nindalf 3y ago
I think it’s a bit extreme to characterise it as sanity vs insanity. I think you need at least one of a large stdlib or good dependency management. I love Go, used it since the 1.0 release and have used it at work for years. No complaints a
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by nindalf 3y ago
Those points aren't contradictory. C++ is actually so terrible that 1. They're underreporting CVEs as of today. You acknowledge that a CVE should have been filed for the FS issue but it wasn't. I say it wasn't becaus
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by nindalf 3y ago
Why would Sony and Microsoft care? No one out there is seriously emulating their latest consoles because they're too powerful. Nintendo's problem is that they're trying to sell a medium range SoC from 2014 in 2024. It's
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by nindalf 3y ago
Why emulate? They could simply publish their games natively for PC and iOS/Android if they wanted to. They choose not to do so to control their platform end to end. That control nets them 30% from all other publishers who publish on th
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by nindalf 3y ago
> they all quickly fixed the issue I notice you linked the fixes for clang and gcc. Where's the link for MSVC? > Should there have been a CVE? Probably. Glad you agree. But the absence of it proves the point I'm trying to ma
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by nindalf 3y ago
I didn't move the goalposts. I was going off my recollection at the time, which was a discussion around the Rust blog post and CVE. Here's a comment from me a day ago saying "I stand corrected" ( https://news.y
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by nindalf 3y ago
Explanation - health potions cost a small amount of in game money and have to be ferried by a courier to the player. Most pros (and good players copying the pros) didn’t do this because it wasn’t considered cost effective. They would rather
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by nindalf 3y ago
> Rust can't guarantee shit And yet, the Rust community takes it seriously, issuing a CVE, a point release and a blog post. You won't find these 3 from all 3 major C++ implementations (clang, gcc and msvc) because they don&#x27
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by nindalf 3y ago
No, it's an excellent example. Rust issued a CVE, an immediate point release with a fix for the issue and a blog post explaining the problem and what they did. 2 C++ implementations fixed the issue, but no CVE or blog post. No point re
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by nindalf 3y ago
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you. I've tried to show you how jawboning works, but you're still steeped in a mindset where the government "undeniably" coerces through legislation and regulati
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by nindalf 3y ago
This is what I mean. I said you had no idea how the government gets things done and you took it to heart, quoting the HN guidelines and everything. The government doesn't need to pass laws to get its way. Think on that for a second - w
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by nindalf 3y ago
I’ve read far more coherent anti-government polemics than the one you’ve written. Those didn’t convince me, and I doubt re-reading yours will. They’re so greyed out I can barely make them out anyway. What you’ve mistaken as an ad hominem at
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by nindalf 3y ago
He’s suggesting adding bounds checks automatically by the compiler, which is vastly more than Stroustrup was recommending. He reckoned merely running sanitizers was sufficient. He wasn’t even taking the problem seriously, as if it’s a given
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by nindalf 3y ago
You are so terrified of government, and yet you don't recognise how powerful government actually is. You're scared of some overreaching law and excessive waste, but actually that's not what's happening here. This is the

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