Rochus

There are some results in the repository, e.g. one I published recently: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Are-we-fast-yet/blob/main/L... Or here: https:/…

I think we can skip this discussion.

They surely have better things to do than worry about what I call my programming language.

It's the abbreviation of Micro Oberon, therefore a quite obvious naming choice; there is no real risk of confusion with commercial offers under this name; it's also a common name in science.

(2023) Great documentary by TheVerge.com, thanks for sharing.

Indeed, e.g. Apple Lisa OS and the first Mac OS. But the present one so far is only around 100 lines; the author calls it a "bootloader". Here is a list of more complete systems: https:…

I was actually surprised to see nearly a factor ten between C99 and LuaJIT. In previous measurements (on x86, see e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/Are-we-fast-yet/blob&#…

> has the LuaJIT implementation been checked over Just re-checked that I inserted the Luau Mandelbrot results in the correct cell. > does that mean LuaJIT is going down the < 5.3 path? Ye…

Here are some measurement results based on the Are-we-fast-yet benchmark suite: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Are-we-fast-yet/blob/main/L... Luau in interpreter…

Meanwhile I conducted performance measurements myself, based on the Are-we-fast-yet benchmark suite. Here are the results: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Are-we-fast-yet/bl…

The interpreter, JIT and backend look very interesting. Have there been performance measurements with comparison to e.g. equivalent C code?

FP is an interesting language. In my opinion, it is somewhat problematic that different language concepts (Delphi, etc.) have been more or less merged into FP, resulting in redundant object models, fo…

Like so many compiler books from academia.

Well, they could lose control if people suddenly could speak directly with Jesus (via LLMs); see e.g. https://www.vice.com/en/article/ai-jesus-is-now-taking-confe... …

So young; what a tragedy.

Indeed a great book; I even have a paper copy. The SSA book is also pretty good: https://web.archive.org/web/20201111210448/https://ssabook.g... …

Thanks for the link. Looks like an interesting paper. Here is the original reference: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/197320.197331 . And here is a better readable postscript …

Interesting work, thank you. May I ask what you are going to do with it? Do you want to emulate it on a PC, or redesign it to make a VST plugin?

(2024)

If ChatGPT generated the text, participants weren't encoding it into memory through the cognitive processes normally involved in writing; they were essentially passive recipients of AI output. Is…

Where is the inflated music?

Unsubstantiated claims like "none of these defenses would hold" just spread FUD. I don't see a reason why anyone would discourage HN users from accessing QNX sources under QSS's fr…

> In the US, the fact that a given copy is/was available at no-charge is not concomitant with the right to produce and distribute unlimited copies on one's own. Still not what I said. L…

see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45593565

> I'm trying to understand what the outcomes are that the principles you describe are intended to lead to. The application of the principles of Human factors engineering to the design of sys…

The principle of causality actually prevents time from forming closed loops in which time would run in a circle.

The effort to implement varargs is indeed significant compared to other approaches. But I think there is even a simpler design than the one shown in the article. Why not just passing an array of void …

Interesting article, thanks for sharing. > Niklaus Wirth uses “discriminated union” why Pascal doesn’t have sum types. In the referenced paper (Wirth, 1975, An assessment of the programming langu…

Ok, I see. Just downloaded the first hit from Google, which has 34 pages and is nicely printed: https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive.pdf .…

Isn't the "Free-Storage List" in section 4c, starting on page 26, a mark & sweep collector? They didn't use the term then, but I think it describes one. I'm not aware of a…