The poor C programming language is ridiculously out of fashion. Critics like to explain how, Dennis Ritchie didn’t know any math, or that the type
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Practical uses of synchronized clocks -Liskov
From 1991, Barbara Liskov looked at the implications for distributed computing when synchronized clocks are available.
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Three modest proposals for the C standard WG14
Note: these were sent to WG14 as official proposals. See also a longer paper, something on alias and Torvalds remarks and Regehr’s paper. 6.12 Proposal to
Read moreVector optimization with C aliasing
One of the common defenses of the abuse of “undefined behavior” by C compilers, and the stupid aliasing rules in the standard is that those
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Torvalds on aliasing
See also Dennis Ritchie on aliasing, PLOS article, pointer alias in C and remarks on the purpose of C. From: LKML From Linus Torvalds <> Date
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Pointer alias analysis in C
Perhaps there is some reason to provide a mechanism for asserting, in a particular patch of code, that the compiler is free to make optimistic
Read moreJudea Pearl’s mysterious claim
Pearl: Of course, but you cannot see this noble aspiration in scientific equations. The language of algebra is symmetric: If x tells us about y, then y tells us about x. I’m
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Depressing and faintly terrifying days for the C standard
C STANDARD UNDEFINED BEHAVIOR VERSUS WITTGENSTEIN 1. DEPRESSING AND FAINTLY TERRIFYING Chris Lattner, the architect of the Clang/LLVM C compiler explained the effects of the
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victor.yodaiken@gmail.com
See also: Damore’s Defenders. Scott Aaronson is a distinguished professor of computer science at the University of Texas. I ran into his blog a while
Read moreClock Sync in Finance and Beyond.
A FSMLabs whitepaper. [gview file=”https://www.yodaiken.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/financeandbeyond.pdf”]
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