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Re:How is Ultrassembler so fast? on Sunday August 31, 2025 @06:19PM (#45087622)
> G++ picks space over time

By definition, that's zero-overhead because Ultrassembler doesn't care about space.

Re:How is Ultrassembler so fast? on Sunday August 31, 2025 @05:35PM (#45087328)
Problem is, there are a lot of RISC-V instruction way longer than that (like th.vslide1down.vx) so hashing is going to be slow.
Re:How is Ultrassembler so fast? on Sunday August 31, 2025 @04:02PM (#45086557)
I thought about hashing, but found that hashing would be enormously slow to compute compared to a perfectly crafted tree.
Re:How is Ultrassembler so fast? on Sunday August 31, 2025 @03:59PM (#45086536)
Furus are "fake gurus." It comes from the Fintwit space where "furus" share their +1000% option trades as if they're geniuses in order to get you to sign up for their expensive Substack.
Re:How is Ultrassembler so fast? on Sunday August 31, 2025 @03:09PM (#45086075)
> LLVM's C++ API

I think I read something about this but couldn't figure out how to use it because the documentation is horrible. So, I found it easier to implement my own, and as it turns out, there are a few HORRIBLE bugs in the LLVM assembler (from cross reference testing) probably because nobody is using the C++ API.

> There are plenty of cppcon presentations [1] about exceptions, performance, caveats, blah blah.

I don't have enough time to watch these kinds of presentations.

Re:How is Ultrassembler so fast? on Sunday August 31, 2025 @02:49PM (#45085859)
Hi everyone, I'm the author of this article.

Feel free to ask me any questions to break the radio silence!

Re:Stop killing games and the industry response on Sunday July 06, 2025 @11:27AM (#44481573)
I don't remember this being the case, you could reuse your old MC purchase when they made the transition over.
Re:FFmpeg School of Assembly Language on Saturday February 22, 2025 @12:19PM (#43140904)
The only thing I don't like about this is the focus on x86 assembly, which is a sinking ship because RISC-V is coming to eat its lunch, FAST.
This is basically irrelevant now that better ISAs like RISC-V have a fixed instruction length (2 or 4 bytes) so the fancy algorithm here isn't necessary.
Re:I Don't Have Spotify on Monday November 11, 2024 @10:34PM (#42112545)
> Qobuz removed a range of releases a couple months ago at short notice, including from users' accounts.

What was the deal with this?

Losing muscle
The Milk-V Pioneer has 64 out of order cores and supports 128GB of ECC memory!
Re:A Linux kernel syscall implementation tracker on Saturday July 20, 2024 @03:24PM (#41018996)
Missing RISC-V
Re:Analysis of Bach's information-dense music on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @10:04PM (#39283954)
Modern bachata music didn't exist until 1994, so there's that.
Re:Analysis of Bach's information-dense music on Monday February 05, 2024 @06:41PM (#39268753)
Although this might be true, it's pretty irrelevant if the kind of music you're analyzing didn't exist a few decades ago.
Re:The biggest losers: Metabolic damage or constrained energy? on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @02:46PM (#38942280)
The problem is, it still boils down to CICO due to thermodynamics. That means they're still eating too much given a certain amount of physical activity.
I don't know, but the end result of that sounds a whole lot similar to what Rumble's doing right now. Therefore, I'd say that for other websites in similar positions, they could just send Brazil's mad demandz to the junk pile.
What could Brazil do?
Re:Oxide Hiring Process on Friday November 03, 2023 @02:27PM (#38132871)
I'm struggling to read past the first couple paragraphs because the whole thing reeks of pretentiousness. How does that even happen?
If it's FOSS, then development costs are 0.
Why not make it free and open source?
There are these "audiophile" earphones from companies like Etymotic that are basically earplugs that block all frequencies equally and still make sound good enough to rival the top end of regular headphones, yet we don't hear of those kicking the bucket.
Re:Raku: A Language for Gremlins on Monday August 07, 2023 @05:22PM (#37041124)
C++!
Re:x86 is dead, long live x86 on Monday July 31, 2023 @11:32AM (#36944169)
Why do these kinds of articles essentially refuse to admit RISC-V exists?
Re:macOS command-line tools you might not know about on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @03:06PM (#36497311)
And `cb` which works cross-platform, via https://github.com/Slackadays/clipboard
Re:Goodbye, Twilio on Sunday June 18, 2023 @04:13PM (#36383986)
There is, it's called a USB 4G modem that plugs straight into whatever server you want.

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