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Can we reliably use unaligned scalars on contemporary hardware?
Processors have come a long way in their handling of unaligned data - from crashing at the very notion of it, through suffering severe penalties, all the way to having almost no impact.
I suppose it ...
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Are design principles of functional programming languages and current hardware (register-machines) contrary?
Functional languages seek to minimize accidental state (computationally-convenient but logically unnecessary data dependencies) by endorsing the most granularly modular, mathematically unambiguous ...
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Why running threaded algorithms with exact number of cores the machine has, is faster than anything else?
I made some basic multi-threading tests here, and noticed that the speed increase when using the exact is bigger than I expected.
I assumed that speed would increase linearly until I hit the limit of ...
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How faster could a dedicated chip do sequential squaring modulo operations to break a time crypto capsule?
I'm facing a very real problem and, sadly, I cannot find the answer on my own: I'm hitting my limit as a programmer because my hardware knowledge is not sufficiently advanced at all.
It's an issue I'...
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What are the reasons for great performance differences running the same program?
I wrote a Python program that has to perform some expensive spatial searches while holding lots of data in memory. I tried to improve the performance, that is tried different approaches (see my ...
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How can I determine the minimum requirements of a piece of software? [duplicate]
Some software producers provide minimum requirements, some examples: Skype, Diablo III, Ubuntu-Server and OpenOffice.
I wonder how those minimum requirements are determined, especially RAM, CPU ...
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Increase Performance of VS 2010 by using a SSD [closed]
After searching on the internet for performance improvements when using Visual Studio 2010 with a solid state hard drive, I heard a lot of different opinions.
A lot of people said that there isn't ...
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Would you purchase hardware with your own money to use at work to do your job better? [closed]
At work, I was given a reasonably-spec'ed machine (dual quad 2GHz, 4GB RAM, 160GB 7200RPM drive, Win7), but it was lacking in a few places (HDD / RAM). The IT staff was OK with me replacing hardware ...
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Isn't functional paradigm too divergent with underlying hardware to be generally efficient?
Inspired by a question from SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6623391/how-to-gain-control-of-a-5gb-heap-in-haskell
It can be a long debate about FP's numerous advantages and disadvantages, but ...
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Does hybrid hard drive improve programming experience? [closed]
I'm tired of how luggish my developments PC is. It's Core2 Duo, 2GB RAM, Seagate ST3500320AS HDD - not the top model, but quite a decent one.
Typically I open several copies of Visual Studio 2008, ...
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