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Nerd Ralph
Personal blog · nerdralph.blogspot.comhardwareprogrammingscience
Nerd Ralph is a personal blog at nerdralph.blogspot.com about hardware, programming and science. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on AVR microcontroller code, such as a leap year check in three instructions. The one comment cites it as an example of avr-gcc producing poor optimized code.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
science and technology stuff
What Hacker News says?
I was disappointed with how bad avr-gcc was at optimizing code. Here's one of several examples I found. https://nerdralph.blogspot.com/2015/03/fastest-avr-software-...
Comment linking /2015/03/fastest-avr-software-spi-in-west.html
on “A leap year check in three instructions”Submitted Honey, I shrunk the Arduino core as a story · 22 points
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