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| bio | website | librador.com |
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| location | Stockholm, Sweden | |
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| visits | member for | 1 year, 11 months |
| seen | Apr 4 at 18:26 | |
| stats | profile views | 17 |
Freelance programmer with background in games and mobile. Full stack web developer. Codes Javascript, but prefers Coffeescript. Loves Python until something even better comes along.
Blog: http://www.librador.com
"Business" page: http://www.vilcon.se
Twitter: https://twitter.com/vilcans
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Sep 8 |
awarded | Necromancer |
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Jun 15 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jan 10 |
awarded | Announcer |
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Aug 10 |
answered | one programmer, many languages — the name dilemma |
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Jul 31 |
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Is Assembly still relevant? @Mchl: Aren't these projects made in C (or even C++) and possibly assembly? I would have guessed that it's very uncommon to use assembly exclusively. |
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Jul 26 |
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What is the advantage of little endian format? -1 as the linked article, although brief, contradicts what you're claiming. As other comments say, there are advantages to little endian. |
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Jul 26 |
awarded | Critic |
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Jul 26 |
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What is the advantage of little endian format? It doesn't really matter as the compiler will unroll the loop anyway. In any case, many CPUs have byte swapping instructions to handle this problem. |
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Jul 25 |
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What is the advantage of little endian format? This just proves that it's faster/easier to work in whatever format that is native to the CPU. It doesn't say anything about whether it's better. The same thing goes for big endian: for(i=0; i<4; i++) { num += data[i] << (24 - i * 8); } corresponds to move.l data, num on a big endian CPU. |
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Jul 25 |
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What are the drawbacks of Python? I use the trick of changing if something() to if False and something(). Another trick is to "comment out" using a multi-line string. |
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Jul 25 |
answered | What are the drawbacks of Python? |
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Jul 25 |
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What are the drawbacks of Python? Solution: Don't use Python 3.x. It's not mature. Python 2.x is. |
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Jul 25 |
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What are the drawbacks of Python? I see lots of complaints about this, but why does people insist having an empty list (that the function modifies) as a default argument? Is this really such a big problem? I.e., is this a real problem? |
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Jul 25 |
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Is Assembly still relevant? Why would anyone write a complete project solely in assembly language today? Or are you asking about a mixed-language environment, which is how assembly is typically used today? |
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Jul 25 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Jul 25 |
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What is the advantage of little endian format? @Steve314: My answer explains how little endian helps with performance in a pipelined CPU: programmers.stackexchange.com/q/95854/27874 |
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Jul 25 |
answered | What is the advantage of little endian format? |
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Jul 22 |
awarded | Editor |
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Jul 22 |
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Source code stolen\hacked by rival company @Bob Murphy: My mistake. Added "none I know of" to my answer. |
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Jul 22 |
revised |
Source code stolen\hacked by rival company added 11 characters in body |
