Not a fan of the framing here, ‘were’ vs ‘would be’ as if the later is just a hypothetical rather than the reality of civilians in Gaza.
Not a fan of the framing here, ‘were’ vs ‘would be’ as if the later is just a hypothetical rather than the reality of civilians in Gaza.
Any particular goals with Ada? Had an academic curiosity for a few years but never used it in earnest.
Delete this before the EA CEO sees it please.
Perhaps the numbers are not plainly available as the previous commenter stated, and they wanted to call out the direct contribution of the 78 unique commit authors, without disregarding many other indirect contributions from commenters, reviewers, testers etc.
ARM is also expanding hugely into the autonomous vehicle space, given the amount of computing required in cars is increasing and low power is very desirable.
RISC-V is an interesting experiment into what an open source ISA looks like, and it is getting funding and interest, but I’d say we’re at least 5-10 years from RISC-V meaningfully competing with ARM’s market share, which it massively dominates currently. It just isn’t a coherent product yet.
Generally the performance difference will be minimal, but the benefit to others (and yourself in the future) in keeping the code’s functionality clear and readable is much more important, especially in a professional setting.
A lot of programmers do have this ‘code golf’ mentality that less lines == efficient, but unless its a bottleneck and you’ve benchmarked it to be significantly faster, code readability should always trump performance.
I remember seeing a comic once about two devs, one complaining that this senior always puts lots of nitpicky comments on her code review, and the other replies that he always makes one obvious mistake, so the senior can point it out and feel like they’ve done their job
Do your thing internet, cos I cannot find it