A discovery about GCC's unidirectional rotation algorithm

(devblogs.microsoft.com)

37 points | by soheilpro 4 days ago ago

12 comments

  • jdw64 5 hours ago

    Looking at this, I feel that while there seem to be many different actual implementations, they really boil down to just a few similar core principles

  • srean 9 hours ago

    'Shocking', 'striking', 'disappointing', 'will shock you' -- the article is padded with hyperbole.

    • jraph 6 hours ago

      This is obviously humor.

      You stopped at the lexicon, check how it's used more thoroughly!

      • srean 6 hours ago

        Struck by (his) Poes I suppose.

        • jraph 4 hours ago

          Happens to the best of us :-)

    • saagarjha 9 hours ago

      Gee I wonder why Raymond would do that

      • srean 7 hours ago

        I have no context. Was that sarcasm ? I have no idea if this is expected or unexpected of Raymond.

        • dataflow 7 hours ago

          Try again? You don't really need context here.

          Blog said: "As with all shocking discoveries, this one will <strike>shock</strike> disappoint you."

          You complained: "'Shocking', 'striking', 'disappointing', 'will shock you' -- the article is padded with hyperbole."

          • jraph 6 hours ago

            Damn, reader mode doesn't keep the strike, I thought it was an English idiom I didn't know about xD

    • DonHopkins 8 hours ago

      He found that gambling was going on in here!

  • sylware 2 hours ago

    gcc is gone, like clang. Those are c++ abominations. Not worth more than /opt.

    Prefer, tinycc, cproc, scc, assembly.

    • vbezhenar an hour ago

      Sometimes I want to design a simpler C-like language and build toolchain for it from the scratch, with no historical baggage. Obviously optimization story will be very poor, gcc carries hundreds of super-qualified man-years of optimization work. But I wonder if it'll be that bad. Modern computers are fast.