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Archive of entries posted on September 2008

The need for speed

19 September 2008, 6:05 pm

I have found a very interesting thread in the Gambit-C Scheme mailing list. Marc Feeley tries to dismiss the myth that floating-point calculations are inherently faster in C/C++ than in Scheme, which is taken as common wisdom. The the work of Bradley Lucier is cited as a case of very fast numerical Scheme code. Bradley [...]

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Call me a whiner

8 September 2008, 11:08 am

But there are out there things like this: We don’t really care about the title but we want someone good (who doesn’t?). We need someone able to model and code well (No architect who never codes). The ability to communicate well with a team is also a big plus. You don’t need to speak French [...]

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