Tag: compilers
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Which bit of a 4k page does your program use?
This follows on from the previous post – here are the plots. These are based on a run of the PARSEC benchmark suite x264 program – encoding 32 frames of video using 18 threads – 16 worker threads: the plots show how often each 16 byte “line” is used – whether as an instruction is…
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If only I had the time…
I would reimplement BINSIC using a JIT compiler as outlined in this rather good blog from Josh Haberman. (And, at least now I have bumped Chomsky from the top of my blog.)
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How much control can Microsoft exert in the development ecosystem?
It’s a long time – over a decade – since I last used a Microsoft development tool. For what it’s worth, I quite liked Visual C++ back then, but in the middle of my subscription (in 1998 if I remember correctly) Microsoft just tore up the contract and offered me something of less use. The…
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A question for a C guru
The debugging continues, but unfortunately I have not yet been able to identify what is fundamentally broken with my file system code. But along the way I have spotted and fixed various bugs. Here is one, I am not even sure why it compiled in the first place, so maybe a C guru could tell…
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