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| | Preparing lecture notes (or videos) sometimes brings you to revisit things you've known for a while, but haven't really taken time to formalize properly. One of those things is fixed-point arithmetic. Fixed-point arithmetic joins the advantage of representing fractional values while maintaining a great simplicity in the operations. Contrary to floating point, arithmetic on fixed-points...
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| | Yet another demonstration of why you should store monetary amounts in integers.
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| | I read somewhere that a bitwise left shift was a faster method of removing a fraction of a floating point number in Javascript than using parseInt or Math.floor(). I wasn't surprised that parseInt was slow, since I think it parses the number as a string, but the left shift being faster than Math.floor() was a bit more puzzling to me. So I decided to make a JSPerf test to compare those three methods. Read on for the full results
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| Continuing the tradition of a year-end progress report from last year, we are excited to report that this year has also been quite a productive one for the Cranelift project! Cranelift is our optimizing compiler backend that provides the...