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What is a number?
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Fixed-Points | Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
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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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What's the smallest amount of currency that can't be represented by a floating-point number? - Benjamin Esham
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| | Yet another demonstration of why you should store monetary amounts in integers.
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Arbitrary Precision, not Arbitrary Accuracy
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baseline jit and inline caches | The Pyston Blog
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| Creating an implementation for a dynamic language using just in time compilation (JIT)techniques involves a lot of compromisesmainly between complexity of the implementation, speed, warm-up time and memory usage. Especially speed is a difficult trade-off because it's very easy to end-up spending more time optimizing a piece of code and emitting the assembly than we...