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Dee Mon's blog
Company blog · infognition.com/blogprogramming
Dee Mon's blog is the company blog at infognition.com, writing about programming. Since 2014, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “From native code to browser: Flash, Haxe, Dart or asm.js?”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite this blog's posts as sources: a 2014 benchmark comparing Flash, Haxe and asm.js performance, and a 2014 post on problems with D's garbage collector. Other links point to a video enhancement product.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Articles on video processing and tools to enhance your video, including super-resolution upsizing method.
Most-linked posts?
- From native code to browser: Flash, Haxe, Dart or asm.js?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-11-17
What Hacker News says?
Perhaps I was naive about the state of the art. After the now-dead reply I received, I searched, and found a couple of papers like this https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04590 - "Frame-Recurrent Video Super-Resolution" but if you look at p. 8, I think many of the algorithms still wouldn't end up with readable text. This paper is from this year, so it is an area of active research. I wrote a quick mail to the authors to see…
Comment linking /articles/when_super_resolution_doesnt_work.html
on “How SQL Database Engines Work, by the Creator of SQLite (2008) [video]”Submitted From native code to browser: Flash, Haxe, Dart or asm.js? as a story · 95 points
HN discussion>- DMD is by far the D compiler with the shortest compile time. It's actually so fast that it comes with a utility, 'rdmd', which compiles-then-execute a D program. Say goodbye to shell/perl/python scripts, now you can have compile-time checks without an explicit/slow compilation step. We use it for automation tasks. Right. See: http://www.infognition.com/blog/2014/d_as_scripting_language... Also of interest: Why D?…
Comment linking /blog/2014/why_d.html
on “The reference D compiler is now open source”Submitted From native code to browser: Flash, Haxe, Dart or asm.js? (2014) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionForgot to put the titles for the 2 Infognition posts linked above, here they are again, with titles now: Why D? http://www.infognition.com/blog/2014/why_d.html D as a scripting language: http://www.infognition.com/blog/2014/d_as_scripting_language...
Comment linking /blog/2014/d_as_scripting_language.html
on “Using D to Create the World’s Fastest File System”Good point. But that is partly due to the design of Python, it being a highly dynamic language. I don't want to get into any flame wars, but I'd hazard a guess that Python is somewhat more dynamic in nature than D (I know some D, and Python well), and that at the least, some of the things one can do in Python, would require a lot more knowledge and skill (with D) and acrobatics or contortions (speaking loosely) to d…
Comment linking /blog/2014/d_as_scripting_language.html
on “Using D to Create the World’s Fastest File System”I read this in http://www.infognition.com/blog/2014/the_real_problem_with_g... better ask the author of the article if you have a way for a better D GC. > To make fast GC it needs to be generational, but generational GC means write barriers: you can't just freely mutate memory, every pointer mutation must be accompanied by additional bookkeeping. I guess that in the context of D generations are not possible or pract…
Comment linking /blog/2014/the_real_problem_with_gc_in_d.html
on “The D Garbage Collector”Some here are asking about D. I saw this article recently, by a tech company founder (Infognition) using D heavily for his image- and video-related products. It was interesting: Why D? http://www.infognition.com/blog/2014/why_d.html
Comment linking /blog/2014/why_d.html
on “PowerNex: a kernel written in the D Programming Language”A friend of mine did what you want. Contact him if you want to use the technology, dunno how much he charges for licensing. http://www.infognition.com/VideoEnhancer/
Comment linking /VideoEnhancer/
on “With Google's RAISR, images can be up to 75% smaller without losing detail”But asm.js (and WebAssembly) runs faster than Flash. See a couple of different benchmarks from 2013 ( http://www.j15r.com/blog/2013/04/25/Box2d_Revisited ) and from 2014 ( http://www.infognition.com/blog/2014/comparing_flash_haxe_da... ). asm.js also outperformed Dalvik in 2013: https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2013/08/01/staring-at-th... Here's Unity's recent benchmark of WebGL and asm.js to see how performance…
Comment linking /blog/2014/comparing_flash_haxe_dart_asmjs_and_cpp.html
on “A look at asm.js and the future with WebAssembly”
