On Jan 5, 2015, at 3:24 AM, Alaric Snell-Pym <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 03/01/15 15:26, Esther Schindler wrote: > Greetings, Esther! What kinds of compilers have you optimised, out of > interest? I have studied traditional compiler optimisation, but by > day-job I tend to optimise a compiler from SQL queries into a > stack-based intermediate representation that's run in a highly parallel > fashion across clusters of servers, which is an almost totally different > world, but good fun nonetheless! It's more than 20 years since I worked on a compiler. Back then it mostly traditional compilers, such as the FORTRAN compiler for the Wang VS minicomputer. Remember those? I switched to writing full time in 1992. One reason why was that, if I had a "bug" in my writing, I knew _right where it was_. > >> Anything else you'd like to know? > > What's your magnetic permeability? I mean, obviously, humans are > probably about as magnetically permeable as salt water, but the less > significant digits probably vary a lot based on all sorts of interesting > factors. Does anybody measure this property of humans? Nobody ever asks > people that. If I ever again build a Web site with "password recovery > security questions", that'll be the one I'll ask, as not other Web site > will have it for hackers to steal and come to my site to steal people's > accounts. Yeah! I confess. I don't know. #GeekShame
