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Pretty old, but a good example of how such an abstraction works: https://github.com/ExaScience/arrow-street

The larger runtime makes bootstrapping go for unsupported architectures more laborious than C, but it's not a hard blocker. The function call overhead for inline assembly feels lik…

Having played it: yep! It's a solitaire Mankala/Awele game. You use the sowing mechanics to try to clear the board, with chains scoring exponential points.

I can also recommend the manga, the first vol. It's packed with interesting ideas and author footnotes that the 1995 hints at but has no time to elaborate on. E.g. In the movie the…

Hanging out in programming language IRC channels (quakenet shoutout) makes you realize pretty quickly why experts in said channels and newsgroups are such irritable grumps whenever…

The binary view is mostly true, unless it's for events or problems they are themselves familiar with. There is a term for this, but can't for the life of me remember it: People thi…

Play on Cilk?

And here I thought drawing graphs in TikZ was doing it manually. Love the article, this is why I browse HN.

And that's a shame, but the relevant workloads typically run on server class CPUs.

> Hard to make a better wheel. Pet peeve: stupid analogy seeing how wheels kept being improved throughout the millennia with every new technology. The only thing in common is that …

Just to highlight: in contrast with fossil fuels, at least nuclear waste is something we can capture, creating a storage problem.

AmbientTalk did this. I used it for a demo where I dragged a mp3 player's UI button to another machine, where pressing play would play it back on the originator's speakers. Proper …

Tournament parallelism is the technical term IIRC.

somethingaweful forums are still very much alive

Anyone else clicked on this expecting an article about Go Generics?

Ignoring the snark for a second. It's not because you are unfamiliar with the go toolchain that it's inherently bad, nor does it put you in a good position to give accurate critici…

I would be fine with a chaotic bubbly mess of an outside presentation, if the libraries were more robust and foundational. At the moment the underlying code, when you scratch the s…

Everything that was old will become new again. Content/structural version control used to be a research field. Pharo still uses one afaik https://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Nier13…

Yeah. It's telling that this story is about their discord channel, not Teams.

The problem is that there is no baseline for measuring GC overhead. You cannot turn it off, you can only replace and compare with different strategies. For example sbrk is technica…

Mandatory mention of notable actor languages: - Erlang and Elexir - E - AmbientTalk

And they could be 0- or 1- indexed? :P

TSO? Did you mean tso.architecture.cpu?

I agree on the part of the opportunity cost and that given the transistor budgets of the time a simpler design would have served better. I fundamentally disagree on putting the maj…

> > Linear virtual addresses were made to be backwards-compatible with tiny computers with linear physical addresses but without virtual memory. > That is false. In the Intel World…