Mon Aug 23 2010 05:22:24 PM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ UncensoredWhat's the latency of an unladen swallow?
African, or European?
Mo Aug 23 2010 17:28:20 EDT von LoanShark @ Uncensored
Python, VM, interpreter, Google
i've been telling for a while now, VM is just another lie for a pimped interpreter. another piece of the puzzle.
Yes, I see it now. Bart is correct: obliterate all compiler IR (intermediate representation.) If you can't compile in one pass directly from AST to native machine code, it's not a real compiler.
;)
Di Aug 24 2010 15:47:19 EDT von LoanShark @ Uncensored
Yes, I see it now. Bart is correct: obliterate all compiler IR (intermediate representation.) If you can't compile in one pass directly from AST to native machine code, it's not a real compiler.
;)
llvm even calls itself low-level-virtual-machine...
and its catching up in terms of performance to gcc (better than java ;-P)
I'm sorry, didn't you just kinda sorta undermine YOUR WHOLE ENTIRE F*CKING POINT, THERE or did I just miss something?
;)
nifty thing about skype is that if your cell phone (or ipod touch)
does wifi, you can skype on it for the same price as you skype from
home with no noticeable difference. Plus skype to skype is free and
you'd be surprised how many people use skype.
Except you can't plug skype into a real phone without some spensive hardware. No I don't want to make phone calls on my computer.
If I was rich enough to afford a phone that did wifi I wouldn't have to cheap out on my land line service.
And that only works if I'm near a wifi hotspot.
Apparently google chat can call the pots network now for free.
Do Aug 26 2010 19:38:31 EDT von Ford II @ UncensoredI have a hard time understanding how llvm could be gcc unless gcc got worse over the years, or they're not taking advantage of all the processor tweaks.
its transpiling C into an intermediate code (well, somehow gcc does that too...) but thats done in a way so it has more information about what a program / object are about to do.
So it can smarter decide when to do loop unroling, inlining and other stuff when creating the actual object.
It also can create much more precise errormessages which show this "awareness" of whats it currently doing than gcc can.
If I was rich enough to afford a phone that did wifi I wouldn't have
to cheap out on my land line service.
wifi has come to even the somewhat low-end phones now. The problem is that you generally can't keep it on all the time because it kills your battery.
oh, the other one I'm seriously considering (same price range, also has wifi, also touch screen) is the nokia 5530 Xpress Music (but it doesn't have GPS, which means that if I ever get a car, I'll have to buy a separate GPS, b/c I'm severely directionally challenged. OTOH, getting a GPS in Israel is a whole weird issue - just b/c your cell phone has one doesn't mean you can safely use it because you might accidentally drive into an unsafe place... so it might not be a relevant consideration, although it's not a relevant problem if, for example, I'm looking for an address in Tel Aviv, Haifa, or Modiin)
wifi has come to even the somewhat low-end phones now. The problem is
that you generally can't keep it on all the time because it kills your
battery.
It does however (as I understand it) use less battery than 3G.
It does however (as I understand it) use less battery than 3G.
TADA! My point exactly, although I think this is a point for a conversation in another room,.
Hopefully not permanently. I successfully downgraded the phone to 1.0RC29, rooted it, replaced the bootloader with a hackinstallable one, etc.
Then I installed Cyanogen, and it doesn't work. And I accidentally deleted the backup of the original ROM that I was careful to take at the beginning.