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    Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022)

    Google’s Highway library now includes a fully portable SIMD‑vectorized quicksort that runs 9‑19× faster than C++ std::sort. By using compress‑store (or permute‑based emulation) for partitioning, the same C++ code targets AVX2, AVX‑512, NEON, SVE and RISC‑V V. Benchmarks show 0.5 GB/s on an Apple M1 and >1 GB/s on a 3 GHz Skylake, beating prior architecture‑specific sorts. The implementation and a…

    Hacker News front pagegoogleblog.com3 minHN460142
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    What's been going on in w64devkit the past year

    This post details a year of significant updates to w64devkit, a Windows development kit, including enhanced release security with code signing and immutability, and a multilib x64 toolchain. It also introduces new build tools like CMake, Ninja, and Ccache, alongside a custom C11 threads implementation and improvements to Binutils and GCC.

    Chris Wellonsnullprogram.com8 minHN212lobste.rs4
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    How I Wrote a Forth (Without Knowing How)

    The author details building MoonForth, a Forth interpreter written in C that leverages Lua's C API for stack manipulation and word storage. The process was surprisingly straightforward, reinforcing the idea that Forth "writes itself" by iteratively filling missing functionality.

    Lobstersvtrlx.ca9 minHN2lobste.rs9