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Comment on Sharing Generic Methods by Another Generic Sharing Update « Juggling, Photography, Software, and Atheism

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:37:24 +0000

[...] Filed under: Software — by schani @ 7:37 pm Tags: generics, mono, types Since my last report on generic code sharing I chased down a few bugs we uncovered when trying out IronPython 2.0. That [...]

Comment on MathMap by kizzle

kizzle — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:39:54 +0000

Trippy but good

Comment on Lisping Flickr by Raheel

Raheel — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:40:30 +0000

I don’t get your Groups ID

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Comment on Sharing Generic Methods by Sam

Sam — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:52:25 +0000

This is fascinating. I wish I knew more about generics and how they are compiled. I will have to read more of your blog :)

Comment on Sharing Everything and Saving Memory by Sharing Generic Methods « Juggling, Photography, Software, and Atheism

Sharing Generic Methods « Juggling, Photography, Software, and Atheism — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:12:18 +0000

[...] how much memory do we save with shared generic methods? In my previous post on sharing generic code I presented a table with the savings in memory my three large test [...]

Comment on Why O’Caml is not my favorite programming language by Programming Contest

Programming Contest — Sun, 25 May 2008 14:45:02 +0000

Let’s have a functional language programming contest :)

Comment on Lisping Flickr by Wedding Flowers by Mansion House Florists

Wedding Flowers by Mansion House Florists — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:31:17 +0000

The LISP API stuff doesn’t mean much to me but i love your photo’s Mark black and white always strike up an atmosphere.

Comment on Flickr censorship is getting sillier every day by Thomas May Photography

Thomas May Photography — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:38:32 +0000

Absurd. I mean I do understand some censorship to an extent, like of child pornography or whatever, but the picture here was censored because the girl was smoking a cigarette? As if that was even the offensive part of the picture.

Comment on Sharing Everything and Saving Memory by MIguel de Icaza

MIguel de Icaza — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:14:11 +0000

Fascinating entry Mark, am glad you posted it.

Although the savings might look small today, we have to keep in mind that many applications still use the old System.Collections, and that very few applications are taking advantage today of LINQ which will exercise generics extensively.

These savings are important to achieve now, as its the very foundation upon which all of C# 3, LINQ and every new application is being built on. Additionally, all of these bytes are sacred, the last thing we want is to get a reputation for being a bloated runtime.

For instance, in Silverlight 2.0 there is no more System.Collections, they have all been deprecated in favor of the generic versions.

Comment on Sharing Everything and Saving Memory by schani

schani — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:09:52 +0000

I wouldn’t say that the memory savings for F# are negligible. Also, my preliminary statistics regarding further memory savings if we expand sharing (which I’ll also post here once they’re done) indicate that we can save another 400k for F# which would translate into a total reduction in produced code of about 25%, which is quite considerable, I think.

It’s clear that one can only hope for reduced memory consumption for code which uses generics extensively.