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Using Zig to Call C Code: Strings ยท mtlynch.io
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Zig Bits 0x2: Using defer to defeat memory leaks - Orhun's Blog
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Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them
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| | What are the problems of C, and how Zig addresses them?
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Zig's New Async I/O (Text Version) - Andrew Kelley
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| | [AI summary] The blog post discusses the challenges and solutions for handling asynchronous I/O in Zig, focusing on cancellation, resource management, and concurrency. It highlights how cancellation is a key primitive for managing resources and avoiding leaks, while concurrency is essential for avoiding deadlocks in producer-consumer scenarios. The post also touches on the importance of using appropriate APIs like `concurrent` instead of `async` when true concurrency is needed, and the ongoing design work for stackless coroutines and I/O interfaces.
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Only 1% of Software Benefits from SIMD Instructions | Ash's Blog
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| David Patterson had recently mentioned that (rephrasing): The programmers may benefit from using complex instruction sets directly, but it is increasingly challenging for compilers to automatically generate them in the right spots. In the last 3-4 years I gave a bunch of talks on the intricacies of SIMD programming, highlighting the divergence in hardware and software design in the past ten years. Chips are becoming bigger and more complicated to add more functionality, but the general-purpose compilers like GCC, LLVM, MSVC and ICC cannot keep up with the pace. Hardly any developer codes in Assembly today, hoping that the compiler will do the heavy lifting.