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by ogoffart 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... > "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
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by ogoffart 9y ago
Similarily, I made a couple of year ago a UTF8 decoder using SIMD. It is almost branchless. (The branches are there only to detect errors) https://woboq.com/blog/utf-8-processing-using-simd.html
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by ogoffart 9y ago
New inspection tools showed micro fissures. The power plant was stopped as a precaution. Then further investigations showed that these have always been there and are not evolving. It was safe all along, that was a false alarm. The power pla
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by ogoffart 10y ago
Again someone who relies on undefined behavior. Casting pointer of wrong alignement is not a platform specific behavior, it's an undefined behavior. Relying on it is an error. The author did not know "What Every C Programmer Shou
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by ogoffart 10y ago
There is also https://woboq.com/blog/verdigris-qt-without-moc.html
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by ogoffart 11y ago
The color theme is based on KDevelop's theme, which happen to be my favorite IDE. I find color really helpfull while reading code since they each have a different to which you quickly get used. But there are other themes that one can c
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by ogoffart 12y ago
2. No. Because most allocations by the kernel are not a result of the program calling malloc. (They can be the result of a pagefault when the program tries to write on some memory)
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by ogoffart 12y ago
One word: convenience. You can do object oriented programming in C, so one does not "need" C++? moc allowed a nice syntax for signal and slot (invented at a time in which C++ compilers did not support templates). And now it allows
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by ogoffart 12y ago
The transparent queueing is implemented by the Qt library (with QObject/QEventLoop). Technically, queueing does not rely on moc. (moc is needed for implementing signals)
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by ogoffart 14y ago
Imagine you have a gene that will make half of your kids very strong, but unable to reproduce. Because of the tendency to protect the familly, your strong kids might help their sibilings to survive and reproduce, propagating their genes. An
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by ogoffart 14y ago
I made it simpler (and slightly more portable ;-) ) : typedef void* (*f)(); extern void* apply(void* func, void** args, size_t argc) { switch (argc) { case 0: return ((f)(func))(); case 1: return