miniblog.

I'm all in favour of exploring syntax design, but sometimes I wish an ASM syntax had won. I see (and muddle) both AT&T and Intel frequently.

An exciting proposal to add inlining reports to LLVM: https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2015-October/091687.html Inlining is crucial for optimisation so transparency is great.

If you work with a programming language long enough, you will see every feature abused at some point.

Clang has already landed initial patches for C++1z coroutines! https://llvmweekly.org/issue/95 Impressive since this is just an anticipated feature!

Writing a changelog programmatically: https://github.com/clog-tool/clog-cli (really nice idea, saves duplication of work if your messages are thorough)

Emacs tip of the day: try smartparens-strict-mode. It makes C-k keep brackets balanced! `foo(1, |bar(2))` press C-k and `foo(1, |)`. Nice!

LLD, whilst producing bigger binaries than gold, is linking in *half* the time! Incredible

It's easy to forget how register constrained the x86 architecture is. Even a gameboy had more general purpose registers!

Emacs 25 will make describe-key even smarter! You will be able to find out which keymap your keybinding was found in.

.@rejeep is there a major mode for editing Cask files in Emacs? I'd expected one but can't find anything. What do you use?

Blogged: Even More BF Optimisations: http://t.co/rypK2tkvMW

Documentation on profiling @rustlang is limited, but https://llogiq.github.io/2015/07/15/profiling.html has some excellent examples (see also https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3dcquc/blog_profiling_rust_applications/ )

Emacs command of the day: reverse-region. Reverses the lines in the region. Very obscure, but extremely useful to me today!

I'm fascinated to learn that powershell has dynamic scoping! I'd thought dynamic scoping had totally fallen out of favour in new languages.

"[C is] optimised for speed, as long as your target is basically a fast PDP-11" http://t.co/CUPgG4GBcO -- limitations of C optimisations