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The x86 / x86-64 instruction sets have many instructions for comparing IEEE754 floating-point numbers.

I've seen lots of chatter about Fil-C recently, which pitches itself as a memory safe implementation of C/C++.

Anthropic are currently in the tech news for (re)producing a C compiler using $20,000 of Claude's time, but I'm more interested in their compiler performance take-home challenge from two weeks ago.

Sebastian Aaltonen recently wrote an excellent piece titled No Graphics API, which you should read if you're interested in the mechanics of GPUs and APIs for talking to them.

I'm the kind of person who thinks about the design and implementation of hash tables.

Continuing the recent theme, I was given an ET-SoC-1 PCIe board, which is now installed in my home lab.

Previously, we saw that ET-SoC-1 lives on, and contains lots of Minions tiles: Each Minions tile contains a NoC mesh stop, 4 MiB of SRAM which can act as L2 cache or L3 cache or scratchpad, and then four "neighborhoods" of CPU cores: The 4 MiB is built fr…

Esperanto Technologies was founded back in 2014, completed the RTL for their Maxion CPUs in September 2018, were doing bring-up and characterization of their ET-SoC-1 in H2 2021, and were happily outlining their next-gen ET-SoC-2x and ET-SoC-3x in November