Learning about vintage approaches to find improvements for modern designs. I feel there's a parallel between PL design and fashion.
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This article discussing forking sqlite draws an interesting parallel between forking and the prisoner's dilemma: forking as a solo contributor is rarely successful, unless others also wish to fork!
https://glaubercosta-11125.medium.com/sqlite-qemu-all-over-again-aedad19c9a1c
Difftastic 0.28 is out :)
* Added support for HCL, Swift and limited Perl
* Fixes to directory diffing and inline display
* Difftastic now performs some work in parallel!
What compiler intrinsics should you provide in a parallel programming language? When do they give you an asymptotic speedup?
A fun discussion for the Futhark programming language, including the *two* big-O measures for time!