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renox
13y ago
Python was designed as an easy to learn language and it has a nice syntax. Its main drawback is in its 'dynamic typing' nature which means that you can make a mistake which can stay hidden for a long time (compared to a compilatio
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renox
13y ago
> What if the architecture doesn't have a carry? Then the compiler has to generate one when needed. What is your point? If you want to do multiple precision arithmetic in assembly, then on the architectures which don't have a c
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renox
13y ago
> Ah, but C++ "const" doesn't do what it says on the tin! What "const" means is not "constant", but "read-only". Yes and that's a huge trap, which is why I'm so annoyed that D has co
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renox
13y ago
Nice but somewhat obsolete I think: AFAIK the ARMv8 (64bit) ISA is different..
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renox
13y ago
I don't get the point of videos here, it doesn't seem to bring much benefit and text would be much faster to read..