R Allan Baruz: Computationally MindedVarious things computationally oriented. Tech stuff, too.(Untitled)- March 28, 2003 It was written in C, which was a great help, except in those instances in which it wasn’t.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/computationallyMinded/2003/03/27.html#a1125 (Untitled)- March 15, 2003 James Robertson of Cincom, the Smalltalk people, points out the results of a benchmarking study (yoinck!) between messaging services (sockets, CORBA, XML-RPC, and SOAP-RPC). BEEP not mentioned. by way of Jay!http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/computationallyMinded/2003/03/15.html#a1095 (Untitled)- March 15, 2003 Design decisions and best practices in application protocol design and rationale for BEEP, a protocol. by way of The Fishbowlhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/computationallyMinded/2003/03/14.html#a1094 (Untitled)- March 15, 2003 Doug Baskins tries to describe the Judy structure in ten minutes. Judy arrays (or Judy trees) are associative arraysmaps that are designed and optimized for modern memory architectures. Haven’t tried them yet, but they look to be of interest. by way of sweetcode.orghttp://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/computationallyMinded/2003/03/14.html#a1093 (Untitled)- March 15, 2003 Graphical plotting programs for Macintosh by way of Slashdot (Apple). I can’t believe I missed something so relevant, um, to stuff.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/computationallyMinded/2003/03/14.html#a1091 (Untitled)- March 10, 2003 Things to avoid...How to write unmaintainable codehttp://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/computationallyMinded/2003/03/09.html#a1074 (Untitled)- March 10, 2003 As a rule of thumb: A design is what the designer has when time and money have run out.—James PooleChief Architect for DisneylandTopanga, Californiahttp://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/computationallyMinded/2003/03/09.html#a1073 (Untitled)- March 4, 2003 When and when not to use Numerical Recipes in C.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/computationallyMinded/2003/03/04.html#a1061 (Untitled)- March 3, 2003 Multiplayer Design Patternshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/computationallyMinded/2003/03/02.html#a1059 Vectorized Mersenne Twister- March 2, 2003 Earlier today, I was thinking to myself, I could teach myself the Altivec instruction set by attempting to optimize the Mersenne Twister pseudoRNG (with its reference implementation in C) with it. That would be a cool project. Then lazin—er, sanity—prevailed, and I used the Google search engine (lawyers, please note unlitigable language!) to find a little message thread on an Altivec forum, wherein one of the mailing list messages responded with an Altivec-optimized MT PRNG coded by.http://www.simdtech.org/apps/group_public/email/altivec/msg00397.html |