Next on lobste.rs: beating C with a custom massively parallel word-counting FPGA. There is no instruction set. It just dumps three integers onto the bus after scanning all of memory until it gets an address fault.
Just pulled it out of my arse, but I haven’t done Verilog in a long time, though (and I didn’t do much of it in the first place), plus I don’t have any FPGA or anything to test it on (and I’m too lazy to set up a simulator), so it most likely contains very bad bugs.
Then, IBM’s scientists write their submission atom by atom with their logo under it the same way. Forwards it to Guinness to grab some meaningless record.
This is getting slightly tired… the only interesting post was the one about an experimental young language where they failed to ‘beat’ C but had an in depth discussion as to exactly why.
It would be more interesting if it were anything like a level playing field. It’s pretty pathetic when people compare unoptimised locale-aware GNU wc with their handcrafted ASCII-only heavily optimised SIMD implementations then act like it’s surprising that they won.
Next on lobste.rs: beating C with a custom massively parallel word-counting FPGA. There is no instruction set. It just dumps three integers onto the bus after scanning all of memory until it gets an address fault.
I dare you or the other lobsters here.
Well if you insist…
Just pulled it out of my arse, but I haven’t done Verilog in a long time, though (and I didn’t do much of it in the first place), plus I don’t have any FPGA or anything to test it on (and I’m too lazy to set up a simulator), so it most likely contains very bad bugs.
I wish I could upvote you more than once. Cool!
Then, IBM’s scientists write their submission atom by atom with their logo under it the same way. Forwards it to Guinness to grab some meaningless record.
This is getting slightly tired… the only interesting post was the one about an experimental young language where they failed to ‘beat’ C but had an in depth discussion as to exactly why.
It would be more interesting if it were anything like a level playing field. It’s pretty pathetic when people compare unoptimised locale-aware GNU wc with their handcrafted ASCII-only heavily optimised SIMD implementations then act like it’s surprising that they won.
I love Eli’s conclusion:
I love this meme. It’s just so terrible.