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New comment by funny_falcon in "Europe's most wanted man plotted my murder and that of my colleague"

funny_falcon — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 05:42:37 +0000

I believe, it was pro-military, but not pro-war. The book idealizes the state and social system, and uses war only as a backdrop.

New comment by funny_falcon in "The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three"

funny_falcon — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 07:17:16 +0000

Compilers still prefer LEA to multiply on 3,5 and 9, which performs shift+add I believe.

New comment by funny_falcon in "From C++ to Clojure: Jank language promises best of both"

funny_falcon — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 09:55:00 +0000

First SmallTalk versions were built with Lisp. “Live environment” and “world image” were just inherited.

New comment by funny_falcon in "Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large text"

funny_falcon — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:50:17 +0000

And looks like Helix editor uses it together with ropey.

New comment by funny_falcon in "C: Simple Defer, Ready to Use"

funny_falcon — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 10:10:07 +0000

OMG!

returns_struct looks actually correct to me, ie it is expected (by me). Golang's defer works this way.

Do both examples follow standard? Or is it common misinterpretation by all compilers?

New comment by funny_falcon in "Rails for everything"

funny_falcon — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 14:24:48 +0000

Do you use stanza?

New comment by funny_falcon in "C++ is an absolute blast"

funny_falcon — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 22:35:06 +0000

There is the trick: use enum for const. It works most of the time.

New comment by funny_falcon in "C++ is an absolute blast"

funny_falcon — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 22:27:33 +0000

It seems meson is gaining traction and will overpass cmake in near future.

Non-temporal store heuristics on the Apple M2

funny_falcon — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:25:00 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/issues/13262

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42408658

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Acton Programming Language

funny_falcon — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 11:26:10 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/actonlang/acton

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42338773

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by funny_falcon in "Float Self-Tagging"

funny_falcon — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 20:02:05 +0000

Another quite similar technique from OpenSmalltalk: https://clementbera.wordpress.com/2018/11/09/64-bits-immedia...

New comment by funny_falcon in "Float Self-Tagging"

funny_falcon — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 19:13:40 +0000

In fact, CRuby successfully combined “Self Tagging” with pointer tagging. Here's the commit:

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/b3b5e626ad69bf22be3228f8...

New comment by funny_falcon in "Float Self-Tagging"

funny_falcon — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 18:47:20 +0000

I mean, CRuby does “Float Self Tagging” for years. Paper just has the mistake about CRuby.

New comment by funny_falcon in "Float Self-Tagging"

funny_falcon — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 17:28:21 +0000

CRuby uses this technique on 64bit platforms for years.

Edit: the commit https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/b3b5e626ad69bf22be3228f8...

New comment by funny_falcon in "Float Self-Tagging"

funny_falcon — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 17:26:37 +0000

Just correction: CRuby uses “Float Self-Tagging” for years.

New comment by funny_falcon in "Lush: My favorite small programming language"

funny_falcon — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 22:34:03 +0000

But commits exists even this year: https://sourceforge.net/p/lush/activity/

New comment by funny_falcon in "A high-performance, zero-overhead, extensible Python compiler using LLVM"

funny_falcon — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:06:15 +0000

Readability, reproducibility, and simple LRU.

Reproducibility matters for tests, they become simpler. Some other algorithms become simpler as well.

LRU is just a dict with preserving order: on access just delete and insert again.

New comment by funny_falcon in "500 Python Interpreters"

funny_falcon — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 19:51:47 +0000

Unfortunately, pocketpy moved to global reference to vm recently while changing implementation from C++ to C. Weird decision.

New comment by funny_falcon in "Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport"

funny_falcon — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 09:15:20 +0000

AFAIK, Signal doesn’t provide any way to prove its application were built from non-modified audited free open source code. Indeed there are evidences it behaves “a bit” differently.

So unless you’ve built application by yourself, you have no guarantee of it’s sequrity.

New comment by funny_falcon in "Show HN: High-precision date/time in SQLite"

funny_falcon — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:58:04 +0000

What “Statically typed” would mean for SQL DB with extensible type system?