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Re:Improving performance with SIMD intrinsics in three use cases
on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @06:44PM (#23775030)
Handmade Hero is one of the best learning resources on SIMD (and, in my opinion, programming in general).
Here's the episode where SIMD is properly introduced: https://guide.handmadehero.org/code/day115
Re:How Old School C Programmers Process Arguments
on Sunday January 28, 2018 @05:41AM (#16250727)
Skimmed through the article and found a small mistake.
That means that (*argv)[0] is the first character of the program name and (*argv)[1] is the first character of the first argument.
(*argv)[1] is the second character of the program name (in this case), not first character of first argument.
Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw
on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:17AM (#16062221)
Well, that's for Linux. We don't exactly know what effects such patches would have on other platforms yet. (do we?)