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The code in compilers is the closest to your typical app you can get in a benchmark like SPEC, eveerything else is actually far more specialized. Compiler code is full of small bas…

I have the opposite problem with Code, it barely writes any comments even for fairly complex C++ code blocks (systems programming stuff), have to prompt it to add extra details abo…

/code-review in Claude Code spawns a lot of sub-agents (counted like 8 once), each looking at the code from some certain aspect (like correctness, maintainability, duplication, tes…

Don't bother replying to the trolls around here.

So this is where all the memory they bought is going to.

MSVC (Microsoft's C++ compiler) had an pretty advanced inter-procedural (LTO) way of doing devirtualization, but it was so buggy and slow that it eventually got disabled. It was tr…

Sadly for them, Nvidia didn't stay still in the meantime and created the next generation of CUDA, CuTile for Python and soon for C++, through CUDA Tile IR (using a similar compiler…

Maybe OP was thinking about compilers "cracking" certain SPEC benchmarks: implementing exactly the optimization needed to boost a benchmark quite a lot, but that opt. probably won'…

They won't, Windows isn't even compiled with AVX2 extensions on, even though every CPU in the last 10y+ supports it, for the fear of it running on some machine that doesn't have AV…

I'm not 100% sure, but I think the main reason the new Win11 apps like Notepad, File Explorer, Task Manager have a slow UI and the piece-by-piece drawing issues is because they com…

I work at a FAANG-size company (moonlighting friendly in theory) and have a side project that I've built mostly in my free time, a bit during work hours, and had it recently approv…

Thanks for the reply! I'm in WA, the moonlighting IP law seems very similar to CA. Both my contract and current HR guidance state that any invention is mine if done outside work ho…

I work at a FAANG-size company (moonlighting friendly in theory) and have a side project that I've built mostly in my free time, a bit during work hours, and had it recently approv…

How is performance compared to Graphviz? There are some large compiler Control flow graphs with 500+ nodes where Graphviz really starts to take a long time to build a layout (dozen…

The Ryzen 2700 is a very nice improvement over 1700, reaches higher frequencies and turbos better. The cooler that comes with the 2700x at least is very nice too and silent.

That is just Intel grabbing some attention from the Threadripper 32 core announcement. It doesn't run at 5Ghz, that was heavily overclocked using a custom cooling system hidden und…

Interesting for developers is the improvement in compiling Chrome, and also the big hit from the Meltdown/Spectre patches on Intel on the same benchmark.