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Matthieu's blog

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Matthieu's blog is a personal blog at blog.matthieud.me about programming and systems. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on programming horror”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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9mentions?
5HN people?
2020–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its posts on exploring Clang/LLVM optimizations, which they cite when discussing what compilers do with C++ code, such as whether empty() is faster than a size check.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on programming horror
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-08-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. maattdd · 2022-04-04
    They are the actual inspiration for my blog post against microservices 2 years ago ( https://blog.matthieud.me/2019/microservices-considered-harm... ). At least, they've only added 500 microservices in 2 years (not even 1 per day, how sad!)

    Comment linking /2019/microservices-considered-harmful/

    on “How we secure Monzo's banking platform”
  2. maattdd · 2021-08-17

    Submitted Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on programming horror as a story · 362 points

    HN discussion
  3. h2odragon · 2021-10-05Recommends
    Things like this will win fans: https://blog.matthieud.me/2020/exploring-clang-llvm-optimiza...

    Comment linking /2020/exploring-clang-llvm-optimization-on-programming-horror/

    on “LLVM 13.0”
  4. maattdd · 2020-06-07

    Submitted Microservices Considered Harmful (2019) as a story · 187 points

    HN discussion
  5. Someone · 2021-10-28
    No, it is very generic. See https://kristerw.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-llvm-optimizes-geo... , https://blog.matthieud.me/2020/exploring-clang-llvm-optimiza... (discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28207207 ) (I remember reading a page with more examples, but cannot find it)

    Comment linking /2020/exploring-clang-llvm-optimization-on-programming-horror/

    on “In C++, is empty() faster than comparing the size with zero?”
  6. todsacerdoti · 2021-08-13

    Submitted Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on programming horror as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. fanf2 · 2024-04-09

    Submitted Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on a programming horror. (2021) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. maattdd · 2023-08-20

    Submitted The missing C++ smart pointer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. maattdd · 2023-07-12

    Submitted The missing C++ smart pointer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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