Notices by Steve Canon (steve@discuss.systems), page 2

@regehr @dalias (macro-fusing bswap + cmp would generally not be feasible because the CPU cannot know that the result of the bswap isn't used elsewhere--the usual rule of thumb for macro fusion is that the second instruction being fused has to overwrite the register name that holds the intermediate result. Since compares don't write to a register, they are bad candidates for macro fusion.)

TFW you're playing cello pieces on bass clarient to practice sight-reading bass clef and then it goes into alto clef.

@cfi Meanwhile clarinetists are just like "meh, gimme like 12 ledger lines, IDC"

@cfi oh, there was also tenor clef

@dalias @amonakov @regehr I don’t think any standard actually formally requires two identical memcmp calls produce the same result. 😂

@inthehands The timbre is a lot like one of the chipmunk alarm sounds (the one they make when a predatory bird is around), but I've never heard the ones in the northeast do a _song_ like that.

@inthehands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEp-sXc54yA&t=12s

@inthehands she never left her spouse for her research assistant while writing a book about “character”, though, so there’s still room for the next generation of women to surpass her.

@inthehands Maureen Dowd represents the triumph of women in the historically male-dominated field of signing your name to unbelievably stupid things on the New York Times op-ed page.

A belated international horseshoe crab day to all who celebrate.

https://vimeo.com/86838871

@inthehands @adamshostack yeah

@inthehands @adamshostack /me looks sadly at the camera and increments the "articles that tackle AI art without mentioning Benjamin" counter

@inthehands @neauoire @capeta @mcc ewww PDF. postscript, man

A modest proposal: get rid of -O0, add a new "-finsert-several-statically-dead-stores-for-each-real-instruction" for anyone who wants its current behavior.

Go home compiler, you're drunk.

@chocobo13 @FrChazzz @inthehands @sue cucumber, peppers, …

@inthehands @sue These things have all of the world's knowledge, and none of the world's wisdom.

I've been on vacation for four hours and I'm already committing SIMD crimes

50% of this is elaborate procrastination from finishing my taxes, though.

@dan @skinnylatte it’s getting worse every year. Basically just green bell peppers now.