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   by sb 15y ago

   I have just read the post and have to say that I would appreciate the post containing a more accurate description of the testing methodology. Some of the techniques described are known in interpreter optimization and his description of "thr
2. 152.▲
   by sb 15y ago

   Just for the record, while I agree at least in principle regarding your assessment of interpreters vs. JIT compilers, the situation seems to be far from clear though, and I think the last word is not yet spoken on that topic. As far as I am
3. 153.▲
   by sb 15y ago

   At the time of writing, some of the other commentors have already provided answers regarding the ease of implementation aspect of interpreters. Another important advantage of implementing an interpreter is that it usually gives you portabil
4. 154.▲
   by sb 15y ago

   This is a very interesting post that fits nicetly with many other interesting statements Mike Pall made (such as his reference to the LuaJIT2 interpreter being faster than the LuaJIT1 jit compiler on some cases [ http://lambda-the-ultimate.
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   by sb 15y ago

   Recently, there has been some work on removing redundant reference count operations in the Python interpreter. The following paper describes how it can be done: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1869631.1869633 . Regarding the performa
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   by sb 15y ago

   Just for the record: Pramod Joisha did static analysis of redundant reference counting operations in 2006 in the Bartok C# research compiler ( http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Pramod_Joisha/Publications/is... ). IIRC, doing it improves perfor
7. 157.▲
   by sb 16y ago

   That is exactly the reason why studying technical subjects is such a joy! Once you grasp a concept, you don't need to learn anything by heart (which I suck tremenduously at.)
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   by sb 16y ago

   Regarding the trackball: I use a "Kensington Expert Mouse" highly recommended!
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   by sb 16y ago

   I agree with the missing parts of the book (btw: anyone interested in that might find "Programming Language Pragmatics" by Michael Scott interesting), however, I think that there is not enough experience on using functional programming lang
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    by sb 16y ago

    Have you actually read CC? Another point: Which books deal with "the most interesting aspects of designing programs" in your opinion?
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    by sb 16y ago

    Shriram Krishnamurthi is a genius; I saw him at a conference last year and regardless of the topic of the talk given, he always had insightful comments and questions that were close to a level of having done the research himself. Honestly,
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    by sb 16y ago

    While I certainly think this would make for interesting research, I think the runtime-complexity of VLIW algorithms (such as Monica Lam's "Software Pipelining") would definitely interfere with the upper-bounds for compilation time of JIT c
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    by sb 16y ago

    Regarding point 2: Last time I checked (IIRC 2006-ish), there seemed to be common resentiment among scientists working in the area of programming language implementation that there is just too little ILP for successful wide-spread VLIW adop
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    by sb 16y ago

    Just for the record (since I have recently stumbled upon and read up on the BCPL stuff): Martin Richards web site at the University of Cambridge contains valuable resources on BCPL ( http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/index.html ), including (re
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    by sb 16y ago

    While I cannot argue on any point of your post, I distinctly remember that sometime ago on HN there was a post how essentially Stanford and MIT "live" on military grants. The story was about Stanfrod being US-Army stronghold, while the Navy
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    by sb 16y ago

    That's just appalling. In Europe, AFAIK there is usually no such thing as college/university sports--competition-wise, that is (aside of the known the Oxford/Cambridge rowing competition.) I just recently discovered the following site, whic
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    by sb 16y ago

    Damn it, if I had known when I was 18! OTOH, I guess since the common opinion is that most bad guys are boring drug dealers, it's fair to say that if there are people inquiring about how to be Batman, there probably are ones interested in b
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    In-depth book reviews for (primarily) cs-theory books(cs.umd.edu)

    4 points by sb 16y ago|1 comments
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    by sb 16y ago

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7ROTJKkhuI OOPSLA'97 keynote; mandatory watching :)
20. 170.▲
    by sb 16y ago

    "Mathematics: Its Contents, Methods and Meaning", seconded! I bought it a couple of years ago when I first read about it on HN and have to say that it is a highly readable account of mathematics.
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    by sb 16y ago

    I agree that it is the best book on compilers for beginners. I think that parsing using a recursive descent parser for LL grammars with attributed grammars teaches you the most basic and important things (such that one is able to design and
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    Game Changing Conjectures In Mathematics(rjlipton.wordpress.com)

    3 points by sb 16y ago|0 comments
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    by sb 16y ago

    Another very important point to keep in mind: ACM helps students cover travel expenses to conferences if they cannot be covered by the students themselves. This is a tremenduous help for students that are not employed by their universities
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    by sb 16y ago

    While this is a nice article on compiling to lambda calculus, the uninitiated might find Barendregt's "Introduction to Lambda Calculus" (ftp://ftp.cs.ru.nl/pub/CompMath.Found/lambda.pdf) an invaluable resource. (IMHO, it's the best work for
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    by sb 16y ago

    sage: http://www.sagemath.org/
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    by sb 16y ago

    Hi, PL reserach in general is my cup of tea, too. I find the idea of a "best paper" catalogue for conferences in the PLDI-area in general very appealing; similar to the site the OP posted. Since you mention that we're not alone, we should p
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    by sb 16y ago

    I had the exact same objection to the parents argument. IMHO, your experience with college students is a direct consequence of what we know all too well from the discouraging PISA results...
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    by sb 16y ago

    Thanks for the link, I really like the site. However, my interests are more in the area of programming languages (PLDI, POPL, OOPSLA, etc.). Does anybody know of something similar for ACM SIGPLAN conferences? (I know they hand out "most inf
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    by sb 16y ago

    That was my first reaction, too :)
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    by sb 16y ago

    RE: publish the best paper in the best conference Usually, this is very hard to achieve. Not only is it hard to find the best conference in your field, getting the best paper award (nb. that there are conferences that don't have a one