A range of fast modulus techniques that beat compiler output
Essentials of Compilation
Compilers are notoriously difficult programs to teach and understand. Most books about compilers dedicate one chapter to each progressive stage, a structure ...
Modular: The Claude C Compiler: What It Reveals About the Future of Software
Compilers occupy a special place in computer science. They're a canonical course in computer science education. Building one is a rite of passage. It forces you to confront how software actually works, by examining languages, abstractions, hardware, and the boundary between human intent and machine execution.
Faster double-to-string conversion
There comes a time in every software engineer’s life when they come up with a new binary-to-decimal floating-point conversion method. I guess my time has come. I just wrote one, mostly over a weekend: https://github.com/vitaut/zmij.
Koru
C-class throughput with none of the ceremony. Koru hides a wild amount of complexity at compile time — so the runtime stays lean.
Qalculate! - the ultimate desktop calculator
I made a build visualizer to understand Bun’s compile times
I built buildprof (Github), an open-source tracing tool that shows where the time goes when you compile software on Linux. Here’s a realtime video of it profiling a clean build of ripgrep: Watch the …
Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers
A 23-year-old student overturned an ancient conjecture about one of math’s simplest operations
Inside Zig's Incremental Compilation
As a member of the Zig core team, one of the most impactful projects I’ve been involved with is the implementation of incremental compilation into the Zig compiler. This feature allows the compiler to detect which individual functions and declarations have changed since a project was last built, recompile only that code, and directly patch the resulting bytes into the output binary, making the rebuild extremely fast.
Wolfram LLM Benchmarking Project
Results from Wolfram's ongoing tracking of LLM performance. The benchmark is based on a Wolfram Language code generation task.
Live code with Tidal Cycles | Tidal Cycles
Live coding environment for making algorithmic patterns
When compilers surprise you — Matt Godbolt’s blog
Sometimes compilers can surprise and delight even a jaded old engineer like me
Proposal for new builtin: @comptimeFileContents · Issue #6223 · ziglang/zig
Basically what it says on the tin - the function would read a file at compile time and return the contents as a comptime string. In my opinion, this builtin function would greatly extend and modula...
Commas in big numbers everywhere: An OpenType adventure
My job involves a lot of staring at large numbers, mostly latencies innanoseconds, and picking out magnitudes like microseconds. I noticedmyself constantly c...
