niofis

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   by niofis 7y ago

   That's correct, as the nim's generated C code is not idiomatic.
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   by niofis 7y ago

   Yeah, I've meant to update it and add more language implementations, but haven't really got the time. Might as well do so soon as almost all compilers/interpreters have new versions which I suspect have many nice optimization
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   by niofis 7y ago

   Did some testing and found that it boils down to three things: RNG algorithm used in the standard library, forced use of double precision floating point numbers (the case for OCaml and javascript), and like you mentioned, memory management.
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   by niofis 7y ago

   This seems like a nice improvement, could you send a PR for it?
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   by niofis 7y ago

   It got me thinking as well, so I ventured and did some experiments on this, and found that the main difference is the algorithm used for the RNG; C's std lib uses a slower one (which also is thread safe, and butchered OpenMP performanc
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   by niofis 10y ago

   Location: Sonora, Mexico Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: node.js, angular, c/c++, apache cordova, ionic framework, javascript, linux, windows, raspberry pi, SQL Server, Azure Résumé/CV: https://1drv.m