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Re:The Argument of Twelves and the Metric System
on Sunday September 01, 2019 @06:12AM (#20851469)
> The main niceties are the increased granularity (nobody would use half °C in practice)
One decimal place is commonly used.
Re:Opinion piece on GHC back ends
on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:50AM (#20851411)
> As an assembler, LLVM is not particularly fast or convenient. It has a huge API, and lots of optimization passes that have to be tweaked to get reasonable output. The posts I read that got that far generally recommended ditching LLVM and forking a JIT engine like LuaJIT, libjit, etc.
But it can't be so bad that it offsets the gain of the many supported platforms, can it?
Re:Opinion piece on GHC back ends
on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:47AM (#20851404)
WebAssembly does sadly not support goto, which means that in some cases you have to simulate it using a big loop with a series of if statements.
Re:The Argument of Twelves and the Metric System
on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:22AM (#20851321)
> Fahrenheit does have some nice properties
Which exactly? Walter melting at 0°C and boiling at 100°C seems the most practical.