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CTimmerman / SICP_Scheme_sucks.py
Created September 13, 2017 12:06
Proving that simple for loops are faster for both man and machine.
""" SICP section 2.2.3, page 160.
We can rearrange the pieces and use them in computing the product of the squares of the odd integers in a sequence:
(define (product-of-squares-of-odd-elements sequence) (accumulate * 1 (map square (filter odd? sequence))))
(product-of-squares-of-odd-elements (list 1 2 3 4 5))
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2017-09-13 v1.0 Translated & benchmarked by Cees Timmerman
"""
from __future__ import print_function # For Python 2.
@mfuerstenau
mfuerstenau / zigzag-encoding.README
Last active July 1, 2024 17:19
ZigZag encoding/decoding explained
ZigZag-Encoding
---------------
Maps negative values to positive values while going back and
forth (0 = 0, -1 = 1, 1 = 2, -2 = 3, 2 = 4, -3 = 5, 3 = 6 ...)
(i >> bitlength-1) ^ (i << 1)
with "i" being the number to be encoded, "^" being
XOR-operation and ">>" would be arithemtic shifting-operation
@dherman
dherman / shared-array-buffer.md
Last active October 29, 2023 11:04
fine-grained borrowing (read-write) and sharing (read-only) of buffers

Goal

Typed arrays can be copied or transferred between workers, but it's not possible for multiple workers to work with a buffer in parallel without copies. This document describes two ways to improve this without introducing data races: transferring read-write access to disjoint regions of buffers, and transferring read-only access to shared buffers/regions.

This variant of the API enables fine-grained borrowing and sharing, where a single ArrayBuffer can have multiple disjoint regions parceled out. This way individual workers can work with their regions at their original indices. This makes the API more amenable to being a compilation target.

Example

Here is an example that demonstrates sharing a read-only segment and multiple read-write segments with four separate workers.

@72lions
72lions / concat.array.buffers.js
Created January 14, 2013 09:22
Concatenates two ArrayBuffers
/**
* Creates a new Uint8Array based on two different ArrayBuffers
*
* @private
* @param {ArrayBuffers} buffer1 The first buffer.
* @param {ArrayBuffers} buffer2 The second buffer.
* @return {ArrayBuffers} The new ArrayBuffer created out of the two.
*/
var _appendBuffer = function(buffer1, buffer2) {
var tmp = new Uint8Array(buffer1.byteLength + buffer2.byteLength);
@jlongster
jlongster / gist:1712455
Created January 31, 2012 19:37
traditional lisp macros
;; outlet code for implementing traditional macro expansion
;; macros
(define (expand form)
(cond
((variable? form) form)
((literal? form) form)
((macro? (car form))
(expand ((macro-function (car form)) form)))
@Gozala
Gozala / example.js
Created January 29, 2012 03:46
Workaround for lack of "tail call optimization" in JS
// Lack of tail call optimization in JS
var sum = function(x, y) {
return y > 0 ? sum(x + 1, y - 1) :
y < 0 ? sum(x - 1, y + 1) :
x
}
sum(20, 100000) // => RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded
// Using workaround