Re: On the D Blog: Lomuto's Comeback

2020-05-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/14/20 9:26 AM, Mike Parker wrote: After reading a paper that grabbed his curiosity and wouldn't let go, Andrei set out to determine if Lomuto partitioning should still be considered inferior to Hoare for quicksort on modern hardware. This blog post details his results. Blog:

Re: On the D Blog: Lomuto's Comeback

2020-05-17 Thread Jon Degenhardt via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 May 2020 at 13:26:23 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: After reading a paper that grabbed his curiosity and wouldn't let go, Andrei set out to determine if Lomuto partitioning should still be considered inferior to Hoare for quicksort on modern hardware. This blog post details his

Re: On the D Blog: Lomuto's Comeback

2020-05-17 Thread JN via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 May 2020 at 14:11:57 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: If possible could you please next time share link with "old" instead of "www"? Like: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gjm6yp/lomutos_comeback_quicksort_partitioning/ There is a Chrome extension that automatically

Re: On the D Blog: Lomuto's Comeback

2020-05-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/14/20 11:57 AM, jmh530 wrote: On Thursday, 14 May 2020 at 13:40:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [snip] Really interesting. Thanks for sharing. I have recently been spending some spare time learning more about D's topN and pivotPartition implementation, which led me to your paper on

LDC 1.22.0-beta1

2020-05-17 Thread kinke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.22: * Based on D 2.092.0+. * AArch64: C(++) interop should now be on par with x86_64, and variadics usable with core.{vararg,stdc.stdarg}. * Windows hosts: Auto-detection & setup of installed Visual C++ toolchains revamped and newly enabled by default.

Re: BindBC Updates: new loader function, SDL_net, streamlined SDL_* version indentifiers

2020-05-17 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 16 May 2020 at 09:00:25 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: A little bit off topic. I wondered whether it is possible to combine dpp and bindbc. Maybe a separate Tool which creates a bindbc packages based on dpp output or even integrates into dpp? Did you already considered s.th. like that?

Re: BindBC Updates: new loader function, SDL_net, streamlined SDL_* version indentifiers

2020-05-17 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 May 2020 at 09:55:15 UTC, Claude wrote: As a user of BindBC (and former Derelict), I really enjoy using those binding libraries. It's some great work, thanks. Thanks!