New comment by lucms_ in "Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian"

lucms_ — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:21:29 +0000

The gender of a noun in the native language is sometimes the opposite in the other language, so it can be difficult in its own way as well. At least this was my experience when briefly learning german as a portuguese speaker. In this sense learning english was easier, although it happened kinda passively by just being on the internet too much.

New comment by lucms_ in "Show HN: Nova JavaScript Engine"

lucms_ — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:07:32 +0000

Isn't data-oriented design about organizing the data in a way that reflects the most common access patterns of the program? The approach of placing all numbers in a big number vector, all Arrays into a big Array vector, and so on, would be "data-oriented design" if it actually reflects the most common access patterns. So, is it the case that when you read a number you also want all those other numbers that come together with it in the cache line? Is that the case for Arrays? For DataViews? In other words, does this approach to allocating memory reflect the most common data access patterns in JavaScript programs? I'm not saying it's a bad approach, and I'm not even trying to imply that it's not DOD, I'm genuinely asking.

Edit: maybe a better question is: does it reflect the most common data access patterns of a JavaScript Engine?

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