What if the runtime system profiled the program to see which functions could be made asynchronous? For example, x = longCalculation() y = shortCalculation() If...
... The Intel stuff tended to be lower level than that. Cache prefetching, some address precalc and that sort of thing is all I remember. I wish I could find...
... I would assume it means an object that contains information about objects, like a MetaClass in smalltalk is a Class that describes Classes. In what...
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I ran across this site in another group pretty neat worth taking a look at: http://www.reviewonlinedating.com...
I just added this group, and figured I might as well announce my existence. I'll probably be lurking for a while, as I am still learning the basics of compiler...
You have some interesting thoughts on the subject, and I would be interested in seeing how you develop them over time. I think that such a "super" language or...
... Actually, Knuth is not a book on programming, it's a book on algorithms (despite the title)! If you want to learn programming in general, the best ...
... From: "Max Battcher / WorldMaker" <me@...> ... Hmmm... Not sure about the JVM but the CLR is a statically typed, object oriented, abstract stack...
... JVM instructions are similar to CLR instructions. IL instructions do not generally include the type of the arguments - they are inferred. This makes CLR IL...
... Agreed! ... Definitely - what I want to do is codify what exactly these differences are, and distinguish between merely syntactic or stylistic, and...
... I'm very interested in this idea too. What if we designed hardware to efficiently map to the programming constructs that we found useful instead of the...
I don't remember if this has been posted before, but I was looking here: http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Comparison_and_Review/ and came across...
What, no Java2K? You guys gotta see that one. :) http://p-nand-q.com/humor/programming_languages/java2k/manual.html ... 2319.1113/doc/turkeyb.html>.)...
... A great book that covers these issues is John Gough's "Compiling for the .NET CLR" [1] - it talks about John's experiences targeting CIL with his Component...
I am feeling a little stressed, either no one has answers to this, or I am stupid, or something. the mystery is in the more abstract realm: why are various...
... Well, I think a lot has to do with when the technology came out, it's compatibility with firewalls/nat, proprietary protocols, security and such. Yes, it...
... ok. ... yes, or like me: I try to join the api's. I try to join the protocols as well. an im protocol (eg: xmpp) seems to work well as the basis of other...
You're heading in the "I want to change the world" mentality, which in the end, is only achievable by a slow and continuing processess. I'd like to have every...
... I had imagined using a glob of protocols and having the system be able to automatically select the best protocol to use (eg: those supported by both apps...
... Bypassing the larger issues you raised... When I've read about XML-RPC/SOAP, they're usually discussed as successors to CORBA/COM/RMI (or at least they...
... understood. however, they have remained fairly seperate. ... maybe, or maybe not. my plan originally was to have both mechanisms. one can branch out a ...
Greetings to my fellow langsmiths, I am writing to announce the first public release of the specification for my programming language Heron. The specification...
... first ... am ... appetites. ... abandoned ... well ... I will only state that from a language design standpoint I disagree with most of the design choices...
Well, first question is why no garbage collection? Unless you're an embedded systems engineer, nobody really wants to deal with memory these days. And what ...
... release ... I appreciate the worthwhile comments from Mike. I think a lot of people are going to be asking the question "why no garbage collection?" so I...
... + GC can improve performance over best hard coded memory management in many cases, by improving cache behavior. The basic idea here is that once you load a...
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