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by riscy 11y ago
No, stack maps provide information about each stack frame (typically using the return instruction pointer left in that frame) to allow for the garbage collector to determine what is a pointer or not in that frame.
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by riscy 11y ago
> Apple improves their ecosystem by making good features standard. Only if you buy their latest devices. Case in point: I just updated to iOS 9.3 for the hue feature and I come to find out (by the fine print on their website) that it&#x2
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by riscy 11y ago
I cringed every time they kept trying to emphasize the night hue mode as if it is innovative... they explicitly removed two apps from the store that added the feature in the past just to try and profit from an old idea.
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by riscy 11y ago
Partly why I think we should call this place Startup News; often more business talk than true hacking ;)
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by riscy 11y ago
Yea, that's basically what I'm doing now. My larger files are auto-generated source code so all I want is syntax highlighting. I'd like to use Atom for everything because it's pretty slick otherwise, but it's not th
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by riscy 11y ago
Did you mean to reply to hacker_9 ?
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by riscy 11y ago
No, the file is not on a network; I don't get why you are in such disbelief... HN complains about a lot of things, but this is pretty cut and dry. I just opened a 2.4MB, 28425 line file containing LLVM IR, and it locks up just scrollin
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by riscy 11y ago
> went through a few files (each with 500-1000 LOC), did some editing and... didn't have a single problem with performance. Pfft, 1000 lines of code? If Atom couldn't handle tiny files like that, you couldn't even call it
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by riscy 11y ago
> let users decide what features they want by putting their money where their mouth is While nice in theory, something like this needs to also have the FLOSS project developers mark requests as feasible and/or within the scope of th
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by riscy 11y ago
I think it solves something (needing a simple, well documented, GPL licensed machine learning framework written in C) but not the major problem faced by those on the cutting edge of machine learning.
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by riscy 11y ago
Monopoly does mean "when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity [...] which relates to a single entity's control of a market" (Wikipedia) Data is the commodity. There is nowhere else yo
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by riscy 11y ago
The monopoly _does_ exist in AI: machine learning is entirely data driven, and companies like Facebook and Twitter quite literally have investors throwing money at them because they have such valuable data for that purpose. Google is no dif
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by riscy 11y ago
The ability for any software to reliably recognize whether an encryption algorithm is being performed or not is not possible (not computable). It can always be hidden.
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by riscy 11y ago
> Another reason is that we want it to be clear that the client can work with any ACME-enabled CA in the future, not just Let’s Encrypt. Great to see that they are actively aware of CA monopolization, and taking steps to avoid becoming o
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by riscy 11y ago
The most interesting parts of this release to me are OpenMP support by default, and the shrink-wrapping in the code generator. Shrink-wrapping [1] moves the prologue/epilogue code that wraps functions in order to setup and tear down th
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by riscy 11y ago
> Scaling and operating this repo is actually quite simple for us as CocoaPods developers whom do not want to take on the burden of having to maintain a cloud service around the clock (users in all time zones) or, frankly, at all. The Co
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by riscy 11y ago
> If you're not acutely aware of the rules of C', you won't get what you want. The same can be said of any language that lacks a rigorous definition; misusing -Ofast is just an example of one. Even then, the definition can
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by riscy 11y ago
This is a meaningless article. A compiler that chooses to perform an optimization (transformation) which does not preserve the defined semantics of the language has a bug, by the definition of what a compiler is. What is the argument?
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by riscy 11y ago
Ah, okay. :)
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by riscy 11y ago
You can expect performance to be no better than a full-fledged native compiler for the language, if the native compiler was somewhat mature. In this particular case, Frege is compiling to Java source code (not JVM bytecode), and Java does n
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by riscy 11y ago
Uh, care to explain why you think something like compiling Haskell to Java will yield better performance than writing an optimizing compiler such as GHC, with its native backend and optimizations that are tailored specifically for the types
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by riscy 11y ago
It doesn't look like this project has gotten past parsing, since all it appears to do is dump an AST.
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by riscy 11y ago
I don't see a point in these rpi3 benchmarks because everything was compiled for armv6, which doesn't even have a hardware floating point unit. A major feature of the rpi3 is armv8.
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by riscy 11y ago
Oops, yea, I really meant the whole Windows-as-a-service direction. I could see Microsoft extending the free offer, though, since they appear to be aggressively pushing people to enroll in the service.
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by riscy 11y ago
> Chasing Windows compatibility is not the answer. [...] reducing Windows dominance is more important. Make it easy for people to switch platforms so companies need to listen to consumers. Agreed, but not everybody's seen the light
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by riscy 11y ago
Given Microsoft's recent moves towards a freemium desktop operating system, with its numerous privacy concerns and baked in advertising, it's great to see an actively developed alternative for those who make use of software origin
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by riscy 11y ago
A user's client should respond with an accept/reject response to the price offered by the website. Everything else would be determined freely: Clients can be created with price range configurations as desired (perhaps per website,
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by riscy 11y ago
You can cover all of the points you made by loading a Bitcoin wallet and having the plugin deduct fractions of a BTC when you visit these web pages, and when the wallet is empty ads are loaded instead. The main loser in this situation is Go
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by riscy 11y ago
I don't see why we should pay website owners through Google, who will presumably take a cut of the money, when decentralized digital currency exists. I'd like to see a Bitcoin based system in the form of a browser plugin.
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by riscy 11y ago
I believe in many cases in C, you would need to insert runtime checks (and I believe gcc/clang has a flag for inserting these when statically checking for it is infeasible). One such behavior which is considered undefined is signed int

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