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> I suspect there is some clever base between 1 and 2 which is trivial to compute Something like this perhaps (although this might be too much granularity): (8 + (cap & 7)) > 3) + …

Are there any good resources for learning how to render dichroic thin films with multiple internal reflections and refraction indexes? Basically, I would love to render something l…

The March 1931 issue of Television News[1] is a fantastic snapshot in time of the development of Television. Amazing all those various silly spinning disk systems peppered througho…

Here are the course notes from an AT&T Compiler Construction Course by "Aho, Sethi, et. al." https://archive.org/details/CompilerConstructionCourse_Dec83

Tiger Innovations | Herndon, VA | Spacecraft Embedded Software, VHDL | Full-time | Onsite Tiger Innovations is a small high technology company specializing in developing spacecraft…

I made a branch of c4 that includes struct support. I should probably add it to the master branch so it gets more visibility: https://github.com/rswier/c4/blob/switch-and-structs/c…

c4.c author here - selfie seems to fill a niche between c4 and my other more full featured compiler/os swieros. Very cool! https://github.com/rswier/swieros/blob/master/00README.tx…

More details on "Primeval" C can be found here: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/primevalC.html Just recently, fragments of the earliest Unix OS source code and B interpreter …

The code appears to be some of the most ancient Unix Kernel Source Code yet found. This is previous to the PDP-11 1st Edition. Still, many of the familiar bits are there (ed, cat, …

Warren Toomey from The Unix Heritage Society (TUHS) posts: http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2016-February/006622.h... With the link: http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distrib…

Write in C https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4YRPdRXKFs

Once again the internet has demonstrated it's ability to (semi-)autonomously heal damage and mis-configuration by replicating data from the faulty nodes. I trust the keepers of thi…

Searched for "Compiler" and was not disappointed. Tim Budd's "An APL Compiler" is a classic. I love the goofy title of Mads Tofte's: "Compiler Generators What They Can Do, What The…

In the future I believe you are going to see less emphasis on the aggressive speedup of C code for traditional CPUs. Instead you will see many more gadgets with simpler processors …

RISC created a huge local minimum by speeding up C code to the exclusion of other languages. I predict that eventually future processors will hide more features from the higher sof…

Completely agree :) But even better to push C code straight down to the hardware and let it crunch on that! Let it allocate a few thousand registers, or spawn off an FPGA compiler …

Maybe we are all better served by faster compilers that create straightforward binaries (and less bugs overall both in the compiler and application code.) Optimization researchers …

I agree optimization is important. So important that it should be pushed down into the hardware. Binaries should look almost like source code. But that's just my vision for what it…

IMHO aggressive optimization at compile time is an example of premature optimization. Let the hardware have access to a straightforward representation. Once the run-time hot-spots …

Many years ago I played around with something called PRECC - A PREttier Compiler Compiler. I remember it was(is) pretty elegant. I wonder if anyone else has experience using it. ht…

I am reminded of H. R. Giger's designs for the movie Alien. They don't seem so far-fetched now.

What I find incoherent is the OP's implication that saving a historic icon means neglecting the sick and starving. I suppose the Eiffel tower should also be left to rust away.