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• Post #2766066

  TIL that #llvm does jump table compression (that is, stores scaled code offsets in u8, u16, or u32 code offsets rather than full 64-bit addresses) on Aarch64! That’s awesome and makes a huge difference on some application (huge switches/matches with many shared branches)! Sadly it appears to not go below u32 on RISC-V. I wonder if similar optimizations can be relied upon for #WASM jits.

• Post #2766065

  Morbid perhaps, but I think Stroustrup's language should be known as C††

• Post #2766064

  Opinionated PSA: The correct typesetting of values with units according to most standards requires separating the value and unit with a _thin_ unbreakable space. Executing the below on macOS will globally rebind Option-Space from Non-Break Space (U+00A0) to Thin Non-Breaking Space (U+202F) ``` mkdir -p ~/Library/KeyBindings cat > ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict <<EOF /* Option-Space to Thin Non-Breaking Space (U+202F) */ "~ " = ("ins...