A couple of interesting articles from The Chip Letter by 'Babbage' on #Nvidia, #CUDA, and #PTX:
"Happy 18th Birthday CUDA!" (https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/happy-18th-birthday-cuda).
"Nvidia's PTX" (https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/nvidias-ptx).
GCC 16 Adding Support For GNU/Hurd On RISC-V Targets | Phoronix
｢ While RISC-V is more open than other CPU ISAs, as recently as two years ago Hurd developers were apprehensive about it and instead exploring AArch64 ports and the like due to being better established than RISC-V ｣
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-16-RISC-V-GNU-Hurd-Targets
Exploiting Undefined Behavior in C/C++ Programs forOptimization: A Study on the Performance Impact (PDF)
https://web.ist.utl.pt/nuno.lopes/pubs/ub-pldi25.pdf
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://web.ist.utl.pt/nuno.lopes/pubs/ub-pldi25.pdf
Learning Rust and it feels like it has the most hardworking compiler out there out of all other languages. 
#rustlang #rust #programming
#language #softwaredevelopment
#compilers
No mention of Cygnus? 
“What The Hell Is A Target Triple?”, Miguel Young de la Sota (https://mcyoung.xyz/2025/04/14/target-triples/).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43696756
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/ofacpc/what_hell_is_target_triple
What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://youtu.be/-HNpim5x-IE
Flambda2 Ep. 4: How to write a purely functional compiler | OCamlPro - https://ocamlpro.com/blog/2025_02_19_the_flambda2_snippets_4/
New Hacking the Grepson podcast episode is out!
Hacking the Grepson 091: Compilers vs Interpreters
Matt (@messerman) and Mike (@nebyoolae) discuss the two main ways one can get a computer to run your code.
Episode Link: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-2y2ke-187d05b
Show Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/hackingthegrepson/feed.xml
Show Home: https://hackingthegrepson.com
Flambda2 Ep. 4: How to write a purely functional compiler https://lobste.rs/s/ta5a6w #compilers #ml #performance
https://ocamlpro.com/blog/2025_02_19_the_flambda2_snippets_4/
Neat:
“A Surprising Enum Size Optimization In The Rust Compiler”, James Fennell (https://jpfennell.com/posts/enum-type-size/).
Via Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/w3jjb2/surprising_enum_size_optimization_rust
I wasn't lying when I said I would finish this yesterday, I just forgot to post. The "alpha" version of my compiler is up on GitHub with a basic README.md attached that I'll improve later
Note that the docs website isn't updated (yet)
If you want to check it out, please check out the [GitHub repository](https://github.com/Giona2/Compiled-Coding-Language)
Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()
https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/python-performance-why-if-not-list
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/python-performance-why-if-not-list
awe: A compiler for the Algol W programming language via @fanf https://lobste.rs/s/xvydc9 #compilers
https://github.com/glynawe/awe
Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() https://lobste.rs/s/45xlaz #c #compilers #python
https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/python-performance-why-if-not-list
