Stories by tosh

The Thirty-Million-Line Problem (2015)

The four programming questions from my 1994 Microsoft internship interview (2023)

Why one compiler appeared to produce different behavior than others

Meta Wants You to Pay for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp Now

QuestDB 9.4.0

Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers

Uint8Array.prototype.toBase64()

Oodle 2.9.14 and Intel 13th/14th gen CPUs (2025)

Discussion of SIMD, SOA, AOSOA (2019) [video]

John Carmack on Inlined Code

Software After Software

Standard relu should have been defined as passing the value at zero

Counting Large Numbers of Events in Small Registers (1978) [pdf]

Bit Twiddling Hacks

Multiple Byte Processing with Full-Word Instructions (1975)

The Free Lunch Is Over (2005) [pdf]

Rectangles All the Way Down (Dyalog '18) [video]

What color is your function? (2015)

Maybe Programmers are Just Bad [video]

Co-Dfns versus BQN's Implementation

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