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Floating Point: The Origin Story

Posted by abhi9u on Monday June 15, 2026 @07:57AM
from the thechipletter.substack.com dept.

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/floating-point-the-origin-story

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ChkTag: x86 Memory Safety

Posted by abhi9u on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @05:56AM
from the community.intel.com dept.

https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/open-intel/ChkTag-x86-Memory-Safety/post/1721490

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The golden ratio as a number base

Posted by abhi9u on Sunday September 28, 2025 @10:57AM
from the apieceofthepi.substack.com dept.

https://apieceofthepi.substack.com/p/the-golden-ratio-as-a-number-base

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Fundamental guide to understanding DRAM Memory

Posted by abhi9u on Monday August 11, 2025 @03:58AM
from the chiplog.io dept.

https://www.chiplog.io/p/fundamental-guide-to-understanding

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Building Query Compilers [pdf]

Posted by abhi9u on Thursday July 31, 2025 @02:06AM
from the pi3.informatik.uni-mannheim.de dept.

https://pi3.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/~moer/querycompiler.pdf

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Confessions of a static timing analysis tool

Posted by abhi9u on Thursday July 24, 2025 @10:10AM
from the chipinsights.substack.com dept.

https://chipinsights.substack.com/p/confessions-of-a-static-timing-analysis

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MIPS

Posted by abhi9u on Sunday July 20, 2025 @09:20AM
from the thechipletter.substack.com dept.

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/mips

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One Law to Rule Them All: The Iron Law of Software Performance

Posted by abhi9u on Sunday July 13, 2025 @08:49AM
from the blog.codingconfessions.com dept.

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/one-law-to-rule-all-code-optimizations

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Quantum Computing without the Linear Algebra [pdf]

Posted by abhi9u on Friday June 13, 2025 @01:37AM
from the eprint.iacr.org dept.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1091.pdf

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Do Junior Developers Add Value to Companies?

Posted by abhi9u on Thursday June 05, 2025 @12:26PM
from the speculativedecoding.substack.com dept.

https://speculativedecoding.substack.com/p/do-junior-developers-add-value-to

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Distance-Based ISA for Efficient Register Management

Posted by abhi9u on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @07:25AM
from the sigarch.org dept.

https://www.sigarch.org/distance-based-isa-for-efficient-register-management/

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Swarc: SIMD Within A Register C (1998)

Posted by abhi9u on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @04:04AM
from the aggregate.ece.engr.uky.edu dept.

https://aggregate.ece.engr.uky.edu/SWAR/Swarc/Scc.html

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What Happens If We Inline Everything?

Posted by abhi9u on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @11:35AM
from the sbaziotis.com dept.

https://sbaziotis.com/compilers/what-happens-if-we-inline-everything.html

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Print CHR$(205.5+RND(1));: Goto 10

Posted by abhi9u on Sunday June 01, 2025 @12:07PM
from the 10print.org dept.

https://10print.org/

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Understanding Idq_uops_not_delivered Performance Counter

Posted by abhi9u on Friday May 23, 2025 @02:41AM
from the easyperf.net dept.

https://easyperf.net/blog/2018/12/29/Understanding-IDQ_UOPS_NOT_DELIVERED

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Edge-AI Chips Can Solve the Cocktail Party Problem

Posted by abhi9u on Thursday May 22, 2025 @10:02AM
from the viksnewsletter.com dept.

https://www.viksnewsletter.com/p/how-edge-ai-chips-can-solve-the-cocktail-party-problem

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Good Performance for Bad Days

Posted by abhi9u on Thursday May 22, 2025 @01:40AM
from the brooker.co.za dept.

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/05/20/icpe.html

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How the jax.jit() JIT compiler works in Jax-JS

Posted by abhi9u on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @06:24AM
from the ekzhang.substack.com dept.

https://ekzhang.substack.com/p/how-the-jaxjit-jit-compiler-works

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Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM

Posted by abhi9u on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @03:24AM
from the pcgamer.com dept.

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/implementing-a-spellchecker-on-64-kb-of-ram-back-in-the-1970s-led-to-a-compression-algorithm-thats-technically-unbeaten-and-part-of-it-is-still-in-use-today/

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Functors, Applicatives, and Monads

Posted by abhi9u on Friday March 28, 2025 @07:46AM
from the thecoder.cafe dept.

https://www.thecoder.cafe/p/functors-applicatives-monads

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Re:Hardware-Aware Coding: CPU Architecture Concepts Every Developer Sh... on Sunday March 23, 2025 @12:41PM (#43454025)

Author here: i encourage you to check the 60+ other articles there before coming to this conclusion.

Maybe everyone should start writing half sentences mixed with ... to not sound like an AI!

Hardware-Aware Coding: CPU Architecture Concepts Every Developer Should Know

Posted by abhi9u on Sunday March 23, 2025 @08:20AM
from the blog.codingconfessions.com dept.

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/hardware-aware-coding

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Re:Douglas McIlroy responds to Unix spell article with new implementat... on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:03AM (#42962395)

I originally wrote this article explaining the data model as implemented in the original Unix "spell", which reached Doug who then responded to it with the follow up work he did which wasn't published anywhere: https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/how-unix-spell-ran-in-6...

Douglas McIlroy responds to Unix spell article with new implementation details

Posted by abhi9u on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:03AM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/abhi9u/status/1887010136155414602

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Advantages of knowing your x86 machine code (2004)

Posted by abhi9u on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @07:20AM
from the devblogs.microsoft.com dept.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20041111-00/?p=37333

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Re:I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS–and You Should Too on Thursday January 16, 2025 @12:19PM (#42728095)

RSS seems to be making a come back. Just a couple of days back saw this post going viral on X about RSS https://x.com/0xglitchbyte/status/1878495012800897229