The Compiler Scientist

"I prefer to view D as a fully equipped machine shop with the right tools for the right job. Yes, it..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:43:09 +0200

“I prefer to view D as a fully equipped machine shop with the right tools for the right job. Yes, it will take longer to master it than a simpler language. But we’re professionals, we program all day. The investment of time to master it is trivial next to the career productivity improvement.”

- Walter Bright

Add -Og to gcc to "optimize for debugging"

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 13:46:18 +0100

Add -Og to gcc to "optimize for debugging"

"using journal rank as an assessment tool is bad scientific practice. Moreover, the data lead us to..."

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:35:54 +0100

“using journal rank as an assessment tool is bad scientific practice. Moreover, the data lead us to argue that any journal rank (not only the currently-favored Impact Factor) would have this negative impact. Therefore, we suggest that abandoning journals altogether, in favor of a library-based scholarly communication system, will ultimately be necessary.”

- Björn Brembs, Marcus Munafò

Exceptions for control flow considered perfectly acceptable

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:48:48 +0100

Exceptions for control flow considered perfectly acceptable

"translate ‘recurse’ simply as ‘curse_again.’"

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:00:57 +0100

“translate ‘recurse’ simply as ‘curse_again.’”

- Ray Dillinger

Literals in Programming Languages

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:10:35 +0100

Literals in Programming Languages

"We, the undersigned researchers, technologists and citizens, demand that the Association for..."

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:28:33 +0100

“We, the undersigned researchers, technologists and citizens, demand that the Association for Computing Machinery make the complete contents of the Digital Library available to everybody.”

- tear down this paywall

"Intel MMU’s fault handling mechanism is Turing complete"

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:13:13 +0100

“Intel MMU’s fault handling mechanism is Turing complete”

- @julianbangert and @sergeybratus

"The lexer MUST MUST MUST be FAST FAST FAST"

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:29:08 +0100

“The lexer MUST MUST MUST be FAST FAST FAST”

- Walter Bright

"Some code will be slower than we want because we don’t have time to optimize it, and some code..."

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 19:03:31 +0100

“Some code will be slower than we want because we don’t have time to optimize it, and some code will be uglier than we want because we have no choice but to optimize it.”

- Yossi Kreinin

"a growth factor of 2 is rigorously the worst possible because it never allows the vector to reuse..."

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:12:14 +0100

“a growth factor of 2 is rigorously the worst possible because it never allows the vector to reuse any of its previously-allocated memory”

- folly/folly/docs/FBVector.md at master · facebook/folly · GitHub

"Fix the value of TWO"

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:31:38 +0100

“Fix the value of TWO”

- siddhesh - GNU C Library master sources branch master updated. glibc-2.17-125-gdd93

A Haskell Roadshow - The Karlsruhe Functional Programmers Meetup Group (Karlsruhe)

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:57:23 +0100

A Haskell Roadshow - The Karlsruhe Functional Programmers Meetup Group (Karlsruhe)

E.W. Dijkstra Archive: The Three Golden Rules for Successful Scientific Research (EWD 637)

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:25:50 +0100

E.W. Dijkstra Archive: The Three Golden Rules for Successful Scientific Research (EWD 637)

"Dependency hygiene trumps code reuse. Example: The (low-level) net package has own itoa to avoid..."

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 09:55:58 +0200

“Dependency hygiene trumps code reuse. Example: The (low-level) net package has own itoa to avoid dependency on the big formatted I/O package.”

- Rob Pike about Go

"Hopefully this will make static typing advocates understand that dynamic typing doesn’t..."

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:53:31 +0200

“Hopefully this will make static typing advocates understand that dynamic typing doesn’t necessarily mean total insanity while dynamic typing advocates can begin to see the range of sophisticated expression afforded by many modern statically typed languages.”

- James Iry

Another Non-Argument in Type Systems

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:48:44 +0200

Another Non-Argument in Type Systems

OpenCL as a general purpose programming language for manycores?

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:18:09 +0200

OpenCL as a general purpose programming language for manycores?

Long Live Incremental Research!

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:39:47 +0200

Long Live Incremental Research!

Using Sphinx for a PhD Thesis (sphinxtr)

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:46:39 +0200

Using Sphinx for a PhD Thesis (sphinxtr)