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Re:Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on programming horror by trias on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @06:28PM (#28215531)
is complexity theory constrained to binary representations? Why should it?
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Re:Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on programming horror by Ar-Curunir on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @07:10PM (#28215840)
Every base except unary is a constant-factor away from binary, and so is irrelevant asymptotically. We don't use unary because it's artificially slow.
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Re:Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on programming horror by creata on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @09:35PM (#28216823)
See also: https://medium.com/@veedrac/why-unary-is-the-best-number-sys...
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Re:Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on programming horror by Ar-Curunir on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @11:05AM (#28222079)
That post is a joke, right?
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