The theory that stacks are better than registers for an interpreter was pretty conclusively disproven by the Lua 5.0 interpreter. See https://www.lua.org/doc/jucs05.pdf (summary: although decode is slightly more…
"Battery powered coffee grinder" but worse: "battery powered drill, but with Li instead of NiMH" Milwaukee Tool v. Snap On (lots of commentary, here's one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9CLvU5-FRo ) On the…
Original has moved to a new host: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/thi...
indent(1) is not idempotent, at least not in the configuration I tested, which makes it practically useless as an editor save hook or an SCM pre-commit hook. Of all the C pretty-printers I tried (about a year ago),…
The theory that stacks are better than registers for an interpreter was pretty conclusively disproven by the Lua 5.0 interpreter. See https://www.lua.org/doc/jucs05.pdf (summary: although decode is slightly more…
"Battery powered coffee grinder" but worse: "battery powered drill, but with Li instead of NiMH" Milwaukee Tool v. Snap On (lots of commentary, here's one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9CLvU5-FRo ) On the…
Original has moved to a new host: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/thi...
indent(1) is not idempotent, at least not in the configuration I tested, which makes it practically useless as an editor save hook or an SCM pre-commit hook. Of all the C pretty-printers I tried (about a year ago),…