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Performance Engineering
Personal blog · pramodkumbhar.comsystemsprogramming
Performance Engineering is a personal blog at pramodkumbhar.com about systems and programming. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “C-Reduce: Systematically Tackling (Not Only) Compiler Bugs”. 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
The linked post covers using C-Reduce for test-case reduction in any language, with before-and-after examples. One commenter cites it while asking how the tool decides what to remove.
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.
For Parallel Applications
Most-linked posts?
- C-Reduce: Systematically Tackling (Not Only) Compiler Bugs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-27
What Hacker News says?
Found this article with examples of before and after: https://pramodkumbhar.com/2024/01/c-reduce-systematically-ta... But still having trouble understanding how it knows WHAT to remove when trying each iteration. There must be some tokenization going on, but then I don't know how that would work across programming languages
Comment linking /2024/01/c-reduce-systematically-tackling-not-only-compiler-bugs-in-hpc-too/
on “You can use C-Reduce for any language”Submitted Pahole: Analysing Memory Layout of Complex Data Structures with Ease as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted C-Reduce: Systematically Tackling (Not Only) Compiler Bugs as a story · 2 points
HN discussion