throwaway_26758

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   by throwaway_26758 10y ago

   I was going for a low-hanging fruit example without resorting to bit-twiddling which might confuse many readers, but since you insist I'll repeat my point that going for plain C is great. And that compilers, if properly guided, can opt
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   by throwaway_26758 10y ago

   > I find this particular argument unconvincing, because those aren't real yet. While the 'ideal' of writing any half-attempted but correct specification, then superoptimizing to the absolute minimal instruction count is un
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   by throwaway_26758 10y ago

   Thanks for bringing up specialized optimization tools such as Halide. Recently there's been a proliferation of domain-specific languages targeting this automatic optimization-from-intentions paradigm. While it's great for testing
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   by throwaway_26758 10y ago

   I always cringe when developers compare compiler-optimized C to 'hand rolled' assembly. In the dawning age of SAT-based program synthesis and vectorization-aware superoptimizers, it's extremely anachronistic. It only shows a