Daily Archives: 2020-04-24

What happens when scientists admit error

Source: Hacker News

Article note: That's pretty heartening. I kind of expect the system to crush people who admit the rush to publish has caused a problem. Then again, this is in psychology where 97% of original studies and 36% of replications find a significant result, so they're already in up to their eyeballs.
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Keen to go _ExtInt? LLVM Clang compiler adds support for custom width integers

Source: The Register

Article note: Oooh, that's exciting. Shitty support for specified precision is a _major_ problem in most languages and toolchains for everyone looking to do anything about power or performance right now. I couldn't use LLVM for my MS work in part because at he time it scrubbed almost all the precision information in the IR.

'Standard C integer types are incredibly wasteful' for certain types of programming

Erich Keane, a compiler frontend engineer at Intel, has committed a patch to the LLVM Clang project that enables custom width integers - such as 31 bit, 3 bit or 512 bit.…

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