Experience, CGO 2012

2012/04/04 · by · in Ideas, Language, People, Self, Tech*

I attended CGO 2012. The speakers were universally boring, but the conversations that you have with other attendees can be quite interesting. For example, I have been thinking that the hodge-podge babel of languages that makes up web applications should…

Express yourself: to the compiler and to your fellow developer.

2012/04/04 · by · in Comp*, Ideas, Language, Self

The keynote speaker at CGO 2012 (Chris Lattner, LLVM) put some crazy thoughts into my head. Want compiler to know about: memory disjointness aliasing Usage of data structures (array of struct vs struct of arrays) whether arithmetic is done on…