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Did you block their tracking across the whole damn internet, by any chance?

I typed "0" into the scaling field to see how it handled it, and couldn't recover from there...

You could also ask the question for "why do founders even bother with startups", and you'll get the exact same answer. It seems selfish that they then expect their employees to work for them, not for money, but rather for love and exposure.

I'm afraid this feature is at best a very minor improvement that hardly justifies migrating a whole compiler.

Here are some performance numbers: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zapcc-Quick-Benchmarks

To be blunt, it's not even addressing a problem that exists or makes sense to even think about. I will explain to you why.

Do you talk down to people like this IRL as well?

I've been using ccache for years and I never had any problem getting ccache to support template code.

What I said is that zapcc has a different approach that offers even more performance benefits, answering the question of what zapcc offers that ccache doesn't offer.

if you understand how compiler caches work. Think about it.

There's no need to use "condescending asshole" as your primary mode of communication, especially when you are wrong, such as in this case.

What value do you think something like zapcc brings that tools like ccache haven't been providing already?

It avoid instantiating the same templates over and over in every translation unit, instead caching the first instantiation of each. ccache doesn't do this: it only caches complete object files, but does not avoid repeated instantiation costs in each object file.

C++ modules aren't influenced by macros on import, nor do they export any macros, so I'm curious what the problem is?

How can that be true? Inside the event horizon, there is only one direction: down. If light cannot escape, how can it happily bounce around, reflect on something, then reach your eyes? How could signals from your feet (say) even reach your brain, assuming a feet-first entry into the black hole?

Nice one... I seem to remember MSVC 5 having a switch that made all functions virtual - or am I confused with another compiler?

Same here. Three days of absolute hell. Even a single blue led was too much to bear. And like you I now need reading glasses, but I don't really care: I can see well enough in the distance, I'm not visually crippled throughout the day without my glasses.

I used to have dry eyes afterwards for quite some time (years) as well, but that seems to have gone away at some point.

If you'll inspect the names of the posters, you will quickly realize that it was not _my_ claim. I'm also not quite certain how a list of centuries-old atrocities serves as an 'evidence-based counter' to the claim that illegal immigrants in modern America have a high crime rate. If that was indeed fabricated, it could be trivially disproved by posting a link to a current-day statistical database.

Instead he tried his best to make this about race. At best that is whataboutism, and at worst he's just a racist f*ck.

It's your reality. _You_ choose to dwell on racial issues. _You_ dedicate your life to "correcting" people, and break in on discussions that have absolutely nothing to do with race, just so you can slap them in the face with a "WHITE MAN BAD!". That is a delusion, and the rest of us have absolutely no "duty" to go along with it.

Buddhism, above anything else, teaches to let go, to _not_ get stuck in the temporary sorrows of the earthly plane. If anything, you should have learned that it doesn't matter, and to not make it the core of your identity.

You blame the White man for genocide, but conveniently leave out that much of that 'genocide' was caused by disease, long before anyone even knew what caused it. You also conveniently ignore that the native Americans happily waged war on each other whenever they had the chance.

You blame the White man for slavery, but conveniently leave out that absolutely everyone practiced slavery, and that it was the White man who abolished it. You also conveniently leave out that more slaves are kept in just India _today_ than were taken by all European nations throughout history.

You blame the White man for lynching, but conveniently leave out that 'necklacing' is practiced today, in South Africa, on White people. Your viewpoint is extremely one-sided, and always to the detriment of a single race.

I can go on, but I think you can see my point: you assign blame to a single race, and are blind to the reality that nobody here are angels. You scapegoat one group based on their skin color, while willfully ignoring that pretty much everybody did the worst they could, whenever they had the opportunity.

Are there any human tribes around that haven't at one point or another experienced a negative event at the hands of others?

What should we all be given, and more importantly by whom, just to make up for the endless parade of historic injustices? Does dwelling on them for all eternity make for a good future?

And that makes it ok to commit warcrimes? Under that reasoning, which really only comes down to "because it is needed", anything is allowed. Including everything Israel does, because to them, it's also needed.

And here's the thing: hamas has extensive underground tunnel networks, so it actually _isn't_ needed to hide among civilians! They do it purely for the optics: every destroyed school or hospital will help sway Western opinion.

That list is totally not cherry picked to serve a very specific agenda (/s). Actual safety for regular citizens is affected by events that are occurring today (instead of decades ago), as the result of actions by individuals (rather than state-sanctioned violence). As such, the grandparent is 100% correct: letting violent people into your country will raise the overal level of violence that people encounter.

Next the police will be knocking on your door, just to make sure you are not skipping ads in the newspaper.

"M'am, that vase in front of your TV could be used to block ads. You are going to have to move that."

Anyway, I see a great future for adblockers that render the whole page in a back buffer, and then copy it to a front buffer where it is masked by a bitmap that just has black squares where the ads used to be. That doesn't "change the original, copyrighted document", so it should be fine. And I presume putting that vase in front of your screen is still acceptable, even in Germany.

If publishers want more control, they always have the option of downloading the entire page as a bitmap.

Yes, really. Windows supports 'delayed rendering' (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dataxchg/cli...), whereby an application can choose to not provide the data until requested. Thus, applications have a choice of either providing the data directly if it's a smaller amount, or delaying that if the amount is large enough that a performance impact can be expected.

Moreover, Windows will request that applications that are closing provide their previously advertized clipboard data, making the feature pretty much transparent to users. And some applications ask if you will still need your previous clipboard data when they close (Excel is one, I seem to remember).

I, once again, disagree with the premise that UB is a necessary precondition for optimisation, or that it exists to allow for optimisation. You do not need UB to unroll a loop, inline a function, lift an object or computation out of a loop, etc. Moreover, _most_ UB does not assist in optimisation at all.

The two instances where UB allows for optimisation are as follows:

1. The 'signed overflow' UB allows for faster array indexing. By ignoring potential overflow, the compiler can generate code that doesn't check for accidental overflow (which would require masking the array index, recomputing the address on each loop iteration). I believe the better solution here would be to introduce a specific type for iterating over arrays that will never overflow; size_t would do fine, and making signed overflow at least implementation defined, if not outright fully defined, after a suitable period during which compilers warn if you use a too-small type for array indexing.

2. The 'aliasing' UB does away with the need to read/write values to/from memory each time they're used, and is extremely important to performance optimisation.

But the rest? Most of it does precisely nothing for performance. At 'best', the compiler uses detected UB to silently eliminate code branches, but that's something to be feared, not celebrated. It isn't an optimisation if it removes vital program logic, because the compiler could 'demonstrate' that it could not possibly take the removed branch, on account of it containing UB.

The claim in the linked article ("what every C programmer should know") that use of uninitialized variables allows for additional optimisation is incorrect. What it does instead is this: if the compiler see you declare a variable, and then reading from it before writing to it, it has detected UB, and since the rule is that "the compiler is allowed to assume UB does not occur", use that as 'evidence' that that code branch will never occur and can be eliminated. It does not make things go faster; it makes them go _wrong_.

Undefined behaviour, ultimately, exists for many reasons: because the standards committee forgot a case, because the underlying platforms differ too wildly, because you cannot predict in advance what the result of a bug may be, to grandfather in broken old compilers, etc. It does not, in any way, shape, or form, exist _in order to_ enable optimisation. It _allows_ it in some cases, but that is, and never was, not the goal.

Moreover, the phrasing of "the compiler is allowed to assume that UB does not occur" was originally only meant to indicate that the compiler was allowed to emit code as if all was well, without introducing additional tests (for example, to see if overflow occurred or if a pointer was valid) - clearly that would be very expensive or downright infeasible. Unfortunately, over time this has enabled a toxic attitude to grow that turns minor bugs into major disasters, all in the name of 'performance'.

The two bullet points towards the end of the article are both true: the compiler SHOULD NOT behave like an adversary, and the compiler DOES NEED license to optimize. The mistake is thinking that UB is a necessary component of such license. If that were true, a language with more UB would automatically be faster than one with less. In reality, C++ and Rust are roughly identical in performance.

AmigaOS only used D0 and D1 for non-ptr values, and A0 and A1 for pointer values. Everything else was spilled to the stack.

I don't know why people are so against it in this field

Because the vast majority of failing software just means inconvenience, rather than disaster.

Maybe that attitude works in a big company, but it won't fly in a smaller one. I'm a software engineer and I write plenty of code, but I also help out with interviews, packing, sales demos and proposals, customer support, general IT support, etc. Hell, I've fixed the coffee machine! I'd absolutely hate it if writing code was my only task.

Yeah, that exists. It's called "not having oppressive tax rules".

Who would employ you, if nobody was motivated to start the salon?

Can't say that I really have one. Presumably there is some sort of hideous thing they are doing that would outrage me if I knew about it. I'll let you fill me in on that.

I'm not a particularly big fan of massive companies in general; it's a concentration of power that I think is dangerous. At the same time, who do we have to blame? Who ordered absolutely everything of Amazon, who took all those Uber rides, who slept in those airbnb rooms? If we, as consumers, had the good sense to spread our money around a little, we wouldn't end up with companies like that.

I'm not opposed to the ultra-rich, assuming of course that they stayed within the boundaries of the law while becoming so. They worked hard, they made smart choices, and they profited from it. And so did we - otherwise, why give them all that money? What I am opposed to is the outsized power they wield thanks to their fortune, and if that power gets misapplied, I have no problem with breaking those companies up into multiple smaller entities.

You're essentially saying that no significantly different system can stably replace the current system, which is of course an ahistorical claim.

I'd say most times it happened in history, significant bloodshed was incurred during a system change. Systems change as the result of revolutions and wars. People die, during those.

What about modern China?

Modern China killed tens of million people during the Great Chinese Famine, which was caused entirely by communist policy, so I don't think your argument is working as well as you were hoping. And if that's too old for you: the jury is still out on how many Chinese died during the covid lockdown, but it's likely to be substantial. In the West, a lockdown meant you weren't allowed to leave your home. In China, it meant they welded you into your apartment, with whatever food you had available.

You're cherry-picking of facts to focus on and facts to ignore.

Whereas you are completely blind to the inevitable outcome of the policies you pursue.

What facts do you think I'm ignoring? Is it the fairness of Stalinist Russia? The freedom of North Korea? The economic progress of communist Ethiopia? The intellectual prowess of communist Cambodia? The equality of China? What am I overlooking that turns murderous communist regimes into great places to emulate?

I wonder if the order was to "destroy that specific satellite", or if this is merely a consequence of the overall reduction in the NASA budget. The first would be scandalous, the second just clickbait.

*IF*

Is there any evidence for this fine theory that you constructed in your head?

Is anyone working on an AI-solution for company management yet? Surely blowing hot air and getting a big salary could be easily automated?

most new drugs come out of the public higher education in the form of studies and papers

Citation needed. Solvaldi, the drug we are talking about, was developed by Pharmasset. I see no evidence of university ties, and I find it hard to believe that a university would let such a money maker slip out of their hands if they had any kind of claim to it.

Even at a mere $300 per pill, you are still looking at $25K for a single treatment, which is well above what most people can afford. So would excluding millions of people from treatment be acceptable if the pills were priced at ingredient cost?

As for the bacteriophages, it perfectly supports my point: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/9sxcko/was_t...

"However, just three years later Eliava and his wife were accused of fantastical crimes and murdered at the personal direction of Lavrentiy Beria, chief of the NKVD. After this d'Herelle was so terrified and disillusioned with the whole Soviet experiment that he never returned from a trip to France... ...Eliava had the misfortune to fall in love, and then sleep with, an opera singer that Beria was obsessed with. Though academic opinion suggests that Beria may have been simply demonstrating to the military and/or still influential Georgian Bolsheviks that even a Hero of Soviet Science was not safe from his machinations."

Communism at work, doing precisely what I told you it does. If the head of the CIA murders a random civilian, it is, thankfully, still a crime in your capitalist society.

And in opposition to your list of capitalist ills I will put the communist equivalents: no medicine, no food, and no products. And even then they managed ecological devastation, such as the lake Karachay area...

And you don't think that an economic system that denies every aspect of freedom (down to, and including the freedom to decide what, or even whether you get to eat, what you wear, where you'll live, what your job is, etc.) can possibly exist without also introducing a very hefty dose of authoritarianism?

They had a strong focus on family and tradition. They were against globalisation, which is mostly a centralising force that benefits the super-wealthy, and _only_ the super-wealthy. They believed in themselves, as a people and as a nation, something we are not allowed to do anymore.

Will you now argue that those things are intrinsically linked to starting wars and conducting genocides? If so, you are going to need MUCH more than just "the nazis did that, therefore everyone who holds even one of those views must hold all of them". And just to make sure: my description of good points applies to the Amish as well, but I don't think anyone would accuse them of wars and genocides.