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Comment #48656460
That's a very important point. For instance on Intel's CPUs multiplication is pipelined - its latency is 3 cycles, but throughput is 1 cycle. Thus completing N multiplication takes…
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Comment #31411377
Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors of sneller core. We have been working on this project for more than a year. It's has got neat AVX512-centered architecture and many neat tricks i…
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Comment #30014868
There are many scary things in the world. But the scariest is the line "Hi, I have a quick question". :)
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Comment #29780072
It was already said by the author, that approx ~70% of patches can be applied independently in various part of the source tree. The rest has to be synchronised.
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Comment #29773225
DuckDuckGo is also not good. Last week I switched to Bing and its results are surprisingly good.
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Comment #29731486
- It looks like a virus... - But it's the antivirus! :)
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Comment #29673616
Thanks, that's a really elegant approach.
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Comment #29667976
Author here. I cannot use BSR, because have to execute code for all bits, regardless their value. The range is: the last bit to the first with value 1. It's a non-obvious iteration…
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Comment #29648176
> In continental Europe I have often been in a room with people from 10 different countries say Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Poland, India, China, Korea, England. Everyone could…
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Comment #28305860
I use my own, simple CLI tool* (not only to track working hours, but also to track open source or hobby activiets). For many years I used Toggl, which is great and powerful - I jus…
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Comment #28192326
There's a similar project http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code .
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Comment #28133644
We can call these things "flaws" or "traits", it doesn't really matter. The reality is SIMD hardware is ubiquitous, while the alternatives the article mentions are niche. Maybe exc…
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Comment #26979182
Love the whole project, she's my hero. :) I'm wondering how much did she pay in total to look like a billionaire.
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Comment #26917589
I often use "not", "and", "or" to clearly express logical conditions. Bit operations look better as cryptic symbols "&", "|" and "~". :)
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Comment #26871126
The sentence in question is misinterpreted. I read it like this: our contract applies all the time, not only when you're directly working for the company. We don't know what the co…
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Comment #26569927
Looks great! Seems there were some issues in conversion into HTML chapter titles. For example https://www.practical-go-lessons.com/chap-31-logging#log.fat...
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Comment #26465317
Regarding the C++ version: instead of copying data to a vector and then sorting the vector, it might be more profitable to use std::multimap . This is a sorted container (likely rb…
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Comment #26441067
The article mentions that the format was reverse-engineered, but the link goes to some extension database page, without any further details. Is the format really known?
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Comment #26285520
Trivia: the Polish word "cuda" means "miracles", "zluda" ("złuda") means "a delusion". Nice pun.
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Comment #23480815
Really nice, well written introduction. Graphviz is a cool tool, we used this when debugging some graph-related algorithms.
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Comment #22913782
There's is an interesting supposition: if Haskell wasn't pure functional (had imperative constructions) it would be more popular. But Ocaml is not pure functional and is not popula…
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Comment #22882891
There's the first issue: "`regex2fat` is nine characters long" ( https://github.com/8051Enthusiast/regex2fat/issues/1 ) :)
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Comment #22843278
After series of interviews I compiled questions to employer, maybe that would help others: https://github.com/WojciechMula/interview-questions
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Comment #22779558
A thing for people not familiar with reST: check out ASCII-art tables - https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/user/rst/quickref.html#... :)