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Before Vista, we did not have window previews in task bar and alt+tab. We didn’t have a good multimedia framework based on the hardware codecs: media foundation arriving with Vista…

“aren't truly using a fully shared memory pool” I think with AMD iGPUs I have here (GCN 5.1 and RDNA3 generations) it’s actually unified, at least on Windows 10. The difference bet…

There’s a reason why all modern desktop environments are designed the same way: power efficiency when multitasking. Imagine you have 3 windows visible at the same time: a videogame…

True, but many modern computers are using unified memory. On such systems all memory is almost equal, despite often reported differently. For example, on my 5 years old laptop with…

10 MB is not too bad for a GUI app. If the app is full screen, display is FullHD and has 8 bit depth, that's almost 8 MB memory for the back buffer alone. Enable HDR and pixels bec…

I agree. In the past, I have successfully used Debian and Alpine for embedded. Never needed to compile OS kernels or standard DLLs, other people already did and published in these …

Why is that HEVC video extension is required? As a part of the user-mode half of the GPU driver, GPU vendors ship media foundation transform DLLs to use HEVC hardware codecs. Don’t…

> typical crystals in the 10-100MHz range I think most quarts watches oscillate at 32 kHz = 2^15 Hz, high precision quartz watches at 8.4 MHz = 2^23 Hz. > The actual problem is sta…

> A typical PC clock is +/-100ppm. After 1 hour that's 0.36s Are you confident in these numbers? They add up to 52 minutes of drift/year. Good modern quartz watches specify 5 secon…

> On which image does the gradation appear more even? It’s the second one! Can’t reproduce. Tested on two monitors on my desk, designer-targeted Benq and cheap laptop. On the Benq,…

“Is it because of government regulations, do we need to deregulate?” Insufficient law enforcement. The same memory manufacturers already broke antimonopoly laws in the past, pleade…

On modern processors, floating point addition often has equal performance to floating point multiplication. For example, on AMD Zen4 it’s 3 cycles latency and 0.5 cycles throughput…

Might be jurisdiction. Let’s say a person who is not a Polish citizen committing and broadcasting a crime outside of Poland, then trying to enter Poland. IANAL but I think this law…

> let alone more performant Not anymore. On modern hardware, the only operation where integers win is single cycle add/sub. For the rest of operations (multiplication, division, sq…

Good article. Worth noting C# standard library handles most of that complexity, no regular expressions required. Call System.Net.Mail.MailAddress.TryCreate, if successful read Addr…

Cool trick, but personally I don’t trust C bitfields. When I need something like that, I usually create C++ class or C# structure with a single private uint64 field, and public met…

None so far. When I try to use these language models in the primary areas of my expertise like SIMD or GPGPU they fail to do any good. When I ask them to implement some general-pur…

> Performance should not be priority #1. Security should be. For a web browser, or a server in a bank, sure. For anything else, questionable. > adding a sandbox around a memory-uns…

The AVX2 SIMD version is not ideal. Too many instructions, and it needs constant vectors. I would rather do it like that https://godbolt.org/z/cn6YKbfYd

> decode (GEMV) is memory bound Decode with batch size 1 is GEMV. Batching makes the decode GEMM too.

> Most of those FLOPS are constrained by memory bandwidth I believe inference with large enough batch size is almost always compute bound, simply due to algorithmic complexity. Eac…

While data centres indeed have awesome internet connectivity, don’t forget the bandwidth is shared by all clients using a particular server. If you have 100 mbit/sec internet conne…

Based on the title, I expected the article to be about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Shahed_136

Indeed, but these normal APIs have runtime costs for bounds checking. For some use cases, unsafe can be better. For instance, last time I used a memory-mapped file was for a large …

I think C# standard library is better. You can do same unsafe code as in C, SafeBuffer.AcquirePointer method then directly access the memory. Or you can do safer and slightly slowe…