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Comment on C Compilers by Phil
Posted: April 30th, 2009, 9:52pm MDT by Phil
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Comment on C Compilers by Anonymous
Posted: April 20th, 2009, 10:17am MDT by Anonymous
not to just chime in about another compiler a month later, but whatever.
There’s also Watcom, which used to be a decent compiler especially due to the dos/4gw extender. I think it’s been opensourced as OpenWatcom for a while, but it’s development might be dead.
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Comment on “Unicode is not an encoding” by Nathan Youngman
Posted: April 13th, 2009, 3:21am MDT by Nathan Youngman
I took some notes from a talk by Brett Cannon (Python core developer) at a meetup, which I hope I faithfully reproduced onto my blog:
“For performance reasons Unicode strings are stored in UTF-16 internally, but you will likely stick with UTF-8 and let Python take care of the translation.”
I’m no guru on codepoints and encodings and all, but that sounds like pretty standard fair… doesn’t Windows use UTF-16 for the same reason?
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Comment on Ruby 1.9.1 released by Nathan Youngman
Posted: April 13th, 2009, 3:13am MDT by Nathan Youngman
@Josh I’ve still been debating Python vs. Ruby, heh.
re: “Python will always run the entire file through a transcoder first…”
There is a byte type in Python 3, so if you just wanted to grab the length or whatnot, you could use that and skip the transcoder.
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Comment on Ruby 1.9.1 released by System Advancements at the Monastery » Blog Archive » Interfacing with Request Tracker
Posted: April 10th, 2009, 5:53pm MDT by System Advancements at the Monastery » Blog Archive » Interfacing with Request Tracker
[...] Puppet: Act One.” Ruby 1.9.x is a fairly significant change. See Josh Haberman post “Ruby 1.9.1 released,” Markus Prinz post “Ruby 1.9 - What’s new? What’s changed?“, and [...]
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Comment on The art of hashing by Shlomi Fish
Posted: April 10th, 2009, 4:27am MDT by Shlomi Fish
Thanks for this article. Once upon a time (back in 2002), I gave a short overview of some hashing techniques to the Hackers-IL mailing list. Seems like I missed some stuff you mentioned here, which wasn’t covered in my introductory Data Structures and Algorithms course.
I myself, always prefer to use some form of chaining instead of open addressing. That’s because with open-addressing, it’s harder to tell when an item was removed or does not exist at all, and as a result the hash becomes much more flimsy. Maybe there’s some magic way to achieve it, but I’m still ignorant of it.