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Help supplement a database of RAW images
(raw.pixls.us)
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pettou
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pettou
10y ago
When you say "details very much might have changed between then and now", are there any news on bringing in the float128 type? I mean, do you happen to know whether there is any reasonable chance of having it in Rust at all?
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pettou
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Please, does anyone know: - Why the chose stack-based VM, rather than register-based one? - I see the docs mention Float128 type, is this a real possibility? What it their opinion on having Float128? - there doesn't seem to be any supp
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Blender 2.78 released
(blender.org)
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pettou
10y ago
Or try sorting points (struct of two float64s) by the x-coordinate, and compare the timing with similar JavaScript code running in V8. You might be surprised...
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pettou
10y ago
Exactly what I was looking for, thanks a lot! Btw., there is also https://github.com/openresty/sregex which you might find interesting.
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pettou
10y ago
Do you perhaps happen to have a link to the results of these benchmarks? I'm desperately looking for some, and http://lh3lh3.users.sourceforge.net/reb.shtml seems to be quite date. And, impressive work on the regex eng
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Google Summer of Code 2016: Accepted Projects
(summerofcode.withgoogle.com)
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pettou
11y ago
And comparison of FLIF, WebP, BPG and JPEG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IheZzcYUV9w
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Generation loss: comparison of FLIF, WebP and JPEG [video]
(youtube.com)
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Lily – A programming language focusing on expressiveness and safety
(jesserayadkins.github.io)
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A Radical Approach to Computation with Real Numbers [pdf]
(johngustafson.net)
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Where Is My [Raspberry] Pi Zero?
(whereismypizero.com)
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New Cycles [Rendering] Benchmark
(code.blender.org)
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Zlib in serious danger of becoming obsolete
(richg42.blogspot.com)
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I will quote from the linked article: Other sorting techniques may be faster. For example, using radix sorting, you can sort n word-sized integers by scanning the data a few bits at a time. Each scan can be done in linear time, and the numb
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The fastest sorting algorithm? (2000)
(nada.kth.se)
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11y ago
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pettou
11y ago
Or Raspbian Lite: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/
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pettou
11y ago
What does the "zero will be produced once less often than every other output" for negative qualities of XorShift and XorShift* means? That they are not able to generate "0"? Also, does anyone know if PCG is in use somewh