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Proposal: Register-based Go calling convention

(Aug 10) #go Save to Pocket

Go has been growing in popularity, and I've even heard it being touted as THE essential language to learn. But it's not really a go-to language for when you need something speedy. In this informative article, Austin Clements explains a proposal for how switching the Go ABI from a stack-based calling convention to a register-based one can increase throughput. Austin describes the current stack-based ABI, ABI design recommendations, and gives an overview of changes to the compiler, linker, and runtime.

Types as axioms, or: playing god with static types (2020)

(Aug 13) #haskell #typescript Save to Pocket

"A common perspective is that types are restrictions". Some languages, like TypeScript, can really make the bad connotations of that statement hit home. Alexis King has written an extensive article that dives into the benefits of types when they are approached from a different angle, by comparing TypeScript and Haskell. Alexis explores subtyping, positive vs negative space, and types as axiom schemas.

Neuromorphic Chips Take Shape

(Aug 01) #hardware Save to Pocket

If you're comparing your brain to a calculator, it's pretty obvious that the calculator is a lot better when it comes calculating most things. But try to get your calculator to catch a ball that's been thrown at it. Not as easy huh? Our brains are pretty amazing in a different way compared to most computative technology. In this article, Samuel Greengard presents how some of this amazingness is trying to be reproduced in computer chips, specifically when it comes to intense computation at low power.

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