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Mostly Software
Personal blog · schani.wordpress.comprogramming
Mostly Software is a personal blog at schani.wordpress.com about programming. Since 2010, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Linear vs. Binary Search”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for technical programming posts, such as a branchless binary search comparison of linear and binary search and a discussion of Swift associated types and generic protocols.
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?
- Linear vs. Binary Search5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-11-12
- Linear Vs Binary Search (2010, SSE2)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-31
- Why O'Caml is not my favorite programming language (2007)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-25
What Hacker News says?
Although it is possible to create branchless binary search. Here is one article: https://schani.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/linear-vs-binary-sea... , there are probably other ways to do that. Another interesting question where one could sink a lot of time is how do to binary search on GPU's using multiple threads. There branching in multiple threads at the same time is also bad, but for slightly different reasons.
Comment linking /2010/04/30/linear-vs-binary-search/
on “Branch predictor: How many “if”s are too many?”Submitted Linear vs. Binary Search as a story · 85 points
HN discussion>However, I ran up against the lack of generic protocols myself today (for those with access, there's an interesting debate at https://devforums.apple.com/thread/230611?tstart=0 ). It seems like a deliberate design choice, but one I'm not really sure about. So did I! A few more related links if you're interested in this question: http://schani.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/associated-types-cons... http://www.artima.com/w…
Comment linking /2014/06/11/associated-types-considered-weird/
on “Smashing Swift”Submitted How To Split A Pizza as a story · 48 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why O'Caml is not my favorite programming language (2007) as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted JScreme - Scheme in JavaScript as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linear Vs Binary Search (2010, SSE2) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why O’Caml Is Not My Favorite Programming Language as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Linear Search Is Faster Than Binary Search as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linear vs. Binary search as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Associated Types Considered Weird as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linear vs. Binary Search as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linear vs. Binary Search (2010) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion- ot · 2013-01-09
Submitted SGen – Concurrent Mark as a story · 1 points
HN discussion Submitted SGen garbage collector explained: the nursery as a story · 1 points
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