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My experience is that it is much more a matter of architecture. This is a lock free key value store in a single file - it doesn't have the network protocol, but any threads dealing…

You might want to take a look at https://github.com/LiveAsynchronousVisualizedArchitecture/si... It is a completely lock free key value store, though does not have eviction built i…

This is completely untrue to the point of being the polar opposite of reality. Look up the attributes of ideal money. Gold and silver are the original currencies. They are trustles…

Those were influential and have a had a very positive effect on modern C++ without a doubt. Now that they are part of the standard though there are fewer reasons to use anything fr…

I'm sure there are good parts to boost. I have no idea what they are, but just by sheer quantity, something must be worth using.

Prefetching is another technique. If memory is accessed linearly, the CPU can prefetch ahead of what is currently being accessed, and that will include the TLB lookups.

I was already assuming that concurrency was a big part of that statement. I respect Rust's attempt to solve these issues at the language level, but my experience has led me to thin…

I'm not sure an anecdote about about a software project failing twice and succeeding on a third try can be used as evidence the the language of the third try enabled something to b…

I don't think there is anything that Rust can do technically that wasn't possible before. I think it's benefits are more about implicit organization.

Requiring trust is not a positive aspect of currencies. Gold and silver succeeded in large part because they can be verified.

The same extrapolations happen with population density. People in LA and New York think the world is overpopulated and everyone is on top of each other. They don't realize that 45 …

No it isn't, flash was the best way to do many things for the years it was popular. Video, vector animation, simple interactivity. Electron is only the best way to do something whe…

Not only that, but it isn't clear how many kids are in private schools, or even what the demographics are of both groups.

> True, there's always another way. But you can say same about almost any subject. This thread was started because the article focuses on lock free programming with garbage collect…

> No. In this case it allows cheap, (mostly) unsynchronized deallocation. There isn't anything about garbage collection that enables something that couldn't be done before. If a lo…

If you really believe this, does that mean you are studying robotics?

Your post that I replied to said that no governments wanted free energy, now you are shifting the goal post to some sort of further made up hypothetical world where big governments…

Wouldn't that imply that less powerful governments would want unlimited energy to become less dependent on richer and more powerful governments?

It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

Exactly - if you could copy and paste a function, having it as a full library dependency is insanity.

SQLite, which is a single 6MB .c file compiles in under a second in any compiler and under 0.01 seconds with tcc.

You can mitigate the reading from disk by memory mapping the file. I don't think serialization is a problem either. It is possible to make data structures that always exist as a si…

Here is that exact workflow in modern C++ https://github.com/LiveAsynchronousVisualizedArchitecture/la... All the IO between nodes is serialized, so an output that is already in sh…

I'm not clear which scenario you are alluding to. It the expectation figuring out only how to sparsely sample the same area or how to quickly sample the larger area so that a detai…

How are they expecting 'faster' MRIs from this? Are they searching for a way to hone in on the important parts to take more detailed scans?