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Blindly Coding
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Blindly Coding is a personal blog at camlorn.net about programming and systems. Since 2014, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Optimizing Rust Struct Size”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
3D audio, C++, digital signal processing, and other assorted topics.
Most-linked posts?
- Optimizing Rust Struct Size3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-04-15
- /posts/April%202017/rust-struct-field-reordering/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-26
- Holman Prize for Blind Ambition Proposal for Accessible Data Visualization Tools2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-03
What Hacker News says?
I know there were/are a few blind people working on Mozilla's stuff and the move to anything that is not open source will make it much harder for them. There was a person[1] who had done significant work on the Rust compiler and said that he would have a much harder time doing it now, since the move to Discord and that he might not be able to participate in the community after the switch[2]. Proprietary solutions ar…
Comment linking /posts/April%202017/rust-struct-field-reordering.html
on “Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server”Submitted Optimizing Rust Struct Size as a story · 233 points
HN discussionWe also have "optimization fuel" in Rust, https://camlorn.net/posts/April%202017/rust-struct-field-reo... Which comes from http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/06/debugging-compilers-with-opti... , which cites a paper from 93.
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on “New Racket Language Website”Submitted The Horror of Cross-platform Audio Output as a story · 57 points
HN discussion> Also, why aren't we size-sorting fields already? We are for struct/enum fields. https://camlorn.net/posts/April%202017/rust-struct-field-reo... There's even an unstable flag to help catch incorrect assumptions about struct layout. https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/457
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on “The Rust calling convention we deserve”Submitted Thoughts on C++ as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMy understanding of the field-reordering work is that it applies to tuples. From http://camlorn.net/posts/April%202017/rust-struct-field-reor... : > The 2000-foot version: Rust structs, enums, and tuples are now automatically smaller in some cases. It's possible for the compiler to work with types whose in-memory field order doesn't match that of your source code. This would mean (again, as I understand it) that you…
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on “The Case for Writing a Kernel in Rust [pdf]”Submitted Holman Prize for Blind Ambition Proposal for Accessible Data Visualization Tools as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Audiograph: A Prototype Graphing Calculator for the Blind as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data visualization accessibility: help me help you as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lambdatask and Monitors in C++ as a story · 1 points
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