Once upon a time, I spent multiple months implementing a graphing calculator using GW-BASIC (manual). Would I be able to do the same more quickly and effectively today using generative AI? ❦❦❦ Let’s give it a go, using Claude AI to start: Implement a simple graphing calculator in GW …| dr knz @ work
Note The latest version of this document can be found online at https://dr-knz.net/go-executable-size-visualization-with-d3.html. Alternate formats: Source, PDF. Note Erratum (2019-04-02): The increase in binary size from CockroachDB v1.0 to v19.2 is 94%/125%, not 194%/225% as initially written. The increase in source code …| dr knz @ work
Note The latest version of this document can be found online at https://dr-knz.net/go-calling-convention-x86-64-2020.html. Alternate formats: Source, PDF. Introduction Two years ago, this article reviewed the low-level code generation of the Go compiler, as of version 1.10. A few things have changed since, and so an …| dr knz @ work
Note The latest version of this document can be found online at https://dr-knz.net/go-errors-vs-exceptions-2020.html. Alternate formats: Source, PDF. Introduction Back in 2018, we compared empirically the performance overheads of Go and C++ with regards to the low-level calling convention: to pass arguments, to return multiple values, and …| dr knz @ work
Note The latest version of this document can be found online at https://dr-knz.net/go-executable-size-visualization-with-d3-2021.html. Alternate formats: Source, PDF. Note After a lively discussion on Hacker News and input from Russ Cox, the conclusions in the analysis below were reworded to avoid the notion of “non-useful bytes”. The …| dr knz @ work
