Notes on computers, programming and all the stuff

Sounds crazy, but it's possible in some cases . Here are experiments results - 3 times faster isn't so bad. list ...

Today I had a quite long session with debugger and release code, you know: no debugger symbols and optimized code. I spotted two pieces of a...

It's really simple. Just install Cygwin , write fork bomb (even by accident) and finally run in bash - works fine. I had to restart my ...

Interpolation search revisited -- theoretical complexity of interpolation search is very promising, but...

Conversion numbers to hexadecimal representation - SWAR, plain SSE, and draft of BMI2 implementation. Article SSSE3: printing hex values...

Simple quiz: what is the length of this string "\xbadcafe"? 5 letters 4 letters 2 letters 1 letter The correct answer is d ...

Observation: function os.remove under Windows doesn't allow to overwrite an existing file. Python from Cygwin works properly. Here is...