Stories by matt_d

SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching

“The Design of C++” – lecture by Bjarne Stroustrup (1994)

Faster dictionary decoding with SIMD instructions

The Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) for the ARMv8-A Architecture

“Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?”: July 2016

Fine-Grained Language Composition: A Case Study

Trip Report: C++ Standards Meeting in Oulu, June 2016

Carp – a statically typed Lisp, without a GC, for high performance applications

40 Years of David Patterson Symposium – live stream [video]

“Unevenly Distributed” – Keynote by Adrian Colyer, “The Morning Paper”

A Differential Approach to Undefined Behavior Detection

Diffie and Hellman Win Turing Award

“Machine Learning: The High-Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt”

John Hennessy, Stanford University: “Great Leadership Can Be Learned”

Andrew Sutton's C++Now 2015 Keynote: Generic Programming with Concepts

Have Native Languages Returned? (TL;DR: Yes) – QCon San Francisco 2015

Nyuzi: open-source processor designed for highly parallel and GPGPU applications

People of ACM – David Patterson

Non-volatile Storage: CPUs no longer more performant than I/O devices

Butler Lampson: Hints and Principles for Computer System Design – HLF Lecture