miniblog.

I find it really interesting how some areas of tech are widely expected to improve radically (e.g. LLMs and smart home tech), others gradually (CPU speed, battery capacity) and others very slowly (e.g. compiler optimisations). Predicting the future is hard.

I shared difftastic on /r/rust, and received some great feedback, some feature requests, and two generous people even read the code and suggested optimisations!

Would it make sense for compilers to have a gas model for optimisations? It would enable speculative execution of transforms that are sometimes expensive.