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| | A long time ago when I was working a MPWTest , "The simplest Objective-C Unit Test Framework that could possibly work...", I had a brief cha...
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| | When I was at CppCon 2016 I overheard someone ask "Everyone keeps talking about reflection, but why do we actually need it?". A few years before that, I also would have had difficulty understanding why it would be useful. After years of writing D, it's hard to imagine life without it. Serialisation is an obvious...
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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.