tungstentim

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   by tungstentim 14y ago

   The link is to a proposal, rather than an announcement, but the replies seem very positive, which bodes well.
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   by tungstentim 14y ago

   It's not portable enough to let me take IR generated for my x86 laptop and run it on my arm board, in general, even though both platforms are ILP32, little-endian, and running the same OS.
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   by tungstentim 14y ago

   "pi is a lie" and "pi is wrong" are incredibly disingenuous slogans. I would be really excited about this site if it weren't for these sensationalist remarks at the top. It's sad, because their main content is all about mathematical reasoni
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   by tungstentim 15y ago

   Synchronous exceptions are debatable. For example, a library function throwing an exception may require its callers to use "finally" clauses (or similar constructs in other languages) in order to maintain Exception Safety. Also, a common pr