Why no MMORPG is good enough?
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) are not new. The first I remember playing is the Legend Of the Red Dragon (LORD), but before that, of course, I’ve played other (real-life)...
View ArticleC++ class sizes #2
In my previous post about class sizes, we visited the empty classes and how their derived classes change in size. Now, we’re going to look what the ABI have to say about tail padding in inherited...
View Article2011 European User Group Meeting
For all LLVM users in Europe that didn’t catch the announcement on the main list, be warned that we’re organising the European LLVM User Group Meeting in September, 16th, in London. All information...
View ArticleFreeCell puzzles solver API
This is a little pet project I did a while ago. It’s a FreeCell puzzle‘s solver API. The idea is to provide a basic validation engine and board management (pretty much like my old chess validation), so...
View ArticleThe doctor and the programmer
About 15 years ago, when I was working on a dodgy Brazilian firm, I had a conversation with an older programmer that I never forgot. He said something along the lines of: Medicine is way easier than...
View ArticleK-means clustering
Clustering algorithms can be used with many types of data, as long as you have means to distribute them in a space, where there is the concept of distance. Vectors are obvious choices, but not...
View ArticleLLVM Vectorizer
Now that I’m back working full-time with LLVM, it’s time to get some numbers about performance on ARM. I’ve been digging the new LLVM loop vectorizer and I have to say, I’m impressed. The code is well...
View ArticleDistributed Compilation on a Pandaboard Cluster
This week I was experimenting with the distcc and Ninja on a Pandaboard cluster and it behaves exactly as I expected, which is a good thing, but it might not be what I was looking for, which is not....
View ArticleUno score keeper
With the spring not coming soon, we had to improvise during the Easter break and play Uno every night. It’s a lot of fun, but it can take quite a while to find a piece of clean paper and a pen that...
View ArticleOpen Source and Profit
I have written extensively about free, open source software as a way of life, and now reading back my own articles of the past 7 years, I realize that I was wrong on some of the ideas, or in the state...
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