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Re:Firefox 4's JägerMonkey JIT status on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @12:53AM (#1513630)

Wow, what do you do with your browser that you absolutely need to have a JS performance which is an order of magnitude better than FF 3.6? Just curious...

Re:What every programmer should know about memory on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @01:43PM (#1512144)

SRAM uses 6x times more transistors to store the same amount of information, so do your math for a hypothetical "512MB laptop". On the other hand maybe they do exist, did you look?

Re:It’s Faster Because It’s C on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @12:29PM (#1511852)

Come to Austin Texas! When I lived there I met quite a few folks who were hacking on some cool hardware in their garages: embedded video analytics, signal processing, etc. Maybe its the "extreme proximity" to giant campuses of IBM/Motorola/Dell that favors a certain flavor of startup ecosystem, not sure...

But thing may have changed since then.

Re:It’s Faster Because It’s C on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @11:40AM (#1511671)

True, but I think his post isn't about generalized comparison of programming languages, but rather a pun towards "Its faster because its C" claims. Not that often our software can benefit from exploiting caching, especially in "release often, release early" world of web startups.

Ask HN: hardware startups, where to begin?

Posted by bokbar on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @01:24AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Every once in a while I get an idea for a cool little gadget paired with a web service. I'm pretty good at web services but have no idea how to approach the task of building a hardware prototype on the cheap... Any blogs/sites you guys can recommend?

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