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This episode of the Jane Street podcast (Signals & Threads) discusses a recent optimization to the GC (pointer prefetching) that's had impressive results. Part of why it has worked…

> Lea became very slow in recent Intel cpus? News to me. Article is from 2014. The "recent" CPUs they are discussing is the Sandy Bridge architecture launched in 2011. See this dis…

It's not bad at all https://github.com/lemire/Code-used-on-Daniel-Lemire-s-blog/...

This top bit is used by the garbage collector for performance. OCaml's GC is light enough that it simply does not feel like it exists at all. Integers also do not cause allocations…

AMD has confirmed that they've been able to replicate the Linux bug and that it only happens on Ryzen , ThreadRipper and Epyc do not suffer from that issue.

Nordam Group | Fullstack Software Developer | Tulsa, OK | Onsite (relocation available) We’re an independent development team inside The NORDAM Group building a brand new public we…

Nordam Group | Fullstack Software Developer | Tulsa, OK | Onsite (relocation available) We’re an independent development team inside The NORDAM Group building a brand new public we…

F# lacks all the most advanced module capabilities of OCaml, is tied to the CLR and isn't free of the Null problem.

It checks that the first column of each row is not null, that's what the '1' stands for.

This is a "10 tonne truck" we're talking about. They also mention how once they needed 3 trucks to pull them out.

It would have to be Core_kernel, the subset of Core that doesn't interact with the runtime or OS. I'm very curious about this and would like to know, too.

You're confusing UdeM with UQAM. UdeM is the more prestigious one by far, but it's also smaller than UQAM. There's at least 6 universities in Montreal, it's easy for outsiders to g…

I pick some technology that has the following characteristics: - A complete paradigm shift. I want something that will force me to rethink how I approach problems. I want to force …

The point of the article was to show how the % of used memory will affect performance in a non-linear manner. It's obvious once you know, but it's not if you've never experienced i…

There's also [Bottleneck]( https://github.com/SGrondin/bottleneck ) for more fine grained concurrency.

Indeed! It was explained in the 3rd article of this series: https://mastermind.atavist.com/he-always-had-a-dark-side

The frontend part of my team is using Mithril for a serious project. They seem to be enjoying it. It was chosen for the reasons you listed.

When open source implementations, reference guides/manuals and public internet forums (in that order from biggest to smallest sign) start being ubiquitous.