Comments for Insignificant Bits

Comment on Hello from Canada! by bob

bob — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:04:48 +0000

Given my shellfish allergy, it is good to finally be away from those evil B’more crabs :)

Comment on Hello from Canada! by Xuchen

Xuchen — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:49:09 +0000

Wow, nice! Don’t you miss Baltimore crabs!

I love to read the mental substitutions! Best of the luck with your Canadian life!

Comment on On static in Java by bob

bob — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 01:14:55 +0000

Any time I use java it inspires hate; unfortunately I probably use it more than anything else :)

It saddens me somewhat that array initialization on the stack is so inefficient. It compiles to something like 4 bytecode ops per array element (but I didn’t actually try to see what the JIT does with it). Since I am just using the array as a read-only look up table, it would be nice to be able to hint that to the compiler somehow.

C gives a little more flexibility in this regard, but some would argue that being able to declare function-scope variables static is a defect in the C spec. Anyway, using a static member variable isn’t a bad solution.

Comment on On static in Java by Xuchen

Xuchen — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:45:50 +0000

2x speed up, hmm… interesting tagging of ‘java-hate’!

Comment on Snow day by Xuchen

Xuchen — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:25:06 +0000

That’s hilarious! It also took one of my friends 1 hour to walk home, though the normal time is only 15 minutes!

Comment on Wrapping up by bob

bob — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:50:23 +0000

Thanks! Yep, joys of NLP notwithstanding, looking forward to being done :)

Comment on Wrapping up by Xuchen

Xuchen — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 23:31:30 +0000

“be glad to be out of academics for the rest of eternity”, ;-)

best of luck for your application for graduation!

Comment on New syscall proposal by bob

bob — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:57:06 +0000

Thanks — and congrats to your future project as well! :) I got lots of offline congrats.

The comments section of this blog tends to attract spam so lately I have taken to requiring moderation and being lazy about it. As a result it’s generally quiet around here.

Comment on New syscall proposal by Sascha

Sascha — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:04:01 +0000

Oh, and while I’m here, thanks for your work on ath5k (which actually brought me to your blog).

Comment on New syscall proposal by Sascha

Sascha — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:02:33 +0000

[Why is nobody commenting? Something important has happened and nobody seems to care! :/ ]

Congratulations and thanks for this very amusing way of informing the world of your luck. All the best wishes for your child process.

(Btw, I might be using your new syscall in a future project… :) )