mastodon 4.7.3Father. Husband. Engineer. Rustacean. Humanist. Former Town Mayor. He/him.
This paper finds that Rust on an microcontroller costs you about 10% extra flash space, actually saves you a bunch of RAM, and takes no extra time to deliver (as compared to C).
Seems about right - especially as the C version needed a heap and the Rust version did not.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25679
Edit: replaced URL of PDF with URL of abstract
Quake is 30 today.
I know the press was done a month ago but today’s the day the full retail version shipped.
A better game than Doom in every respect. I’m going to play it on my 1996 Silicon Graphics O2 later to celebrate.
You'll be pleased to note that I've typed long rants about people being jerks on The Internet into this box and I've deleted each and every one of them.
Highly recommended.
Apropos absolutely nothing at all, my favourite ever meal was a simple Steak and Frites at the brasserie opposite Brussels Midi station. I try and eat there whenever I'm changing to/from the Eurostar to London.
Today I am mostly doing a git bisect on the QEMU codebase. So, yeah.
Me, on the first 30 °C + day of the year: It’s so hot all I can do is lay naked on this concrete floor
Me, into our fourth heatwave of the year: I think I’ll wear these jeans and cycle to work at noon
I wrote some thoughts about Rust and how you can use it to talk to your hardware.
TL;DR: Read your own docs, like your users have to. Seriously. Go read them.
I despise Daylight Savings because it doesn’t save anything (it moves it) and
it gives everyone jet lag twice a year for no good reason.
Just pick a time zone where Noon is roughly when the sun is at its highest, and let communities organise themselves around that.
https://eurorust.eu/talks/tales-from-the-embedded-rust-frontier-bootstrapping-a-brand-new-ecosystem/
Lots of great talks at EuroRust. And this aging idiot banging on about ancient processors or something.
Tickets for RetroFest in Swindon (UK) are now sold out for the Saturday, with some Sunday tickets left. So you should get one soon if you want to come.
I will bring my:
- Silicon Graphics O2 running IRIX and the Indigo Magic Desktop
- Apple Power Macintosh G3 running Rhapsody
- HP 9000 Model 712/60 running NeXTSTEP 3.3
- HP Visualise B-class running HP-UX and HP Vue
- UltraSPARC tower thing, with an UltraSPARC II running GNOME 2 on Solaris, and a Celeron 733 MHz on a PCI card running Windows NT in a window.
- Sun SPARCstation 20 running CDE on Solaris 7
They'll all be networked with browsers so you can pretend it's 1996 and you're at a very well funded university.
For Sale
* Diamond Viper V770 Ultra (nVidia Riva TNT2 Ultra) AGP graphics card, with driver CD and pamphlet. Tested working.
* Sound Blaster Live! PCI Sound card. Tested Working.
* Sound Blaster Audigy SE (CA0106) PCI Sound card. Tested working.
* Adaptec AHA-2940 Ultra PCI SCSI card (with 50-pin internal, 50-pin high-density external and on-board BIOS). Tested working.
* Intel "Bayfield" D865GBF ATX Socket 478 motherboard, with Pentium 4 @ 3.0 GHz and 512 MB SDRAM.
* Has 2x IDE interface, Floppy interface, 2x SATA, AGP, 6x PCI, on-board sound, on-board video, on-board ethernet, RS-232, 4x USB. Tested working.
* Cirrus Logic GD-5440 PCI graphics card. Tested working.
* ATI 3D RageII+DVD PCI graphics card. Tested working.
* Hauppage WinTV PCI capture card, with RF and Composite input. Tested working.
* PNY GeForce 6600 LE PCI-Express graphics card. Tested working.
Happy to post in the UK at cost. No international mail - sorry.
OK, maybe today's the day I move from Google Drive to pCloud.
The whole He-Man movie was amazing but The Darkness … damn those guys understood the brief when doing the soundtrack.
Well I was reading the blog by the xscreensaver author, but not any more. They totally grabbed the wrong end of the stick.
Eins, Zwei, Drei … with a slice of pepperoni.
I already have a computer containing an actual Arm chip, FYI.
@wren6991@types.pl This is hand written in RISC-V assembly, apparently. The mind boggles.
Happy New Financial Year.
Rick Beato interviewed Billy Joel. It’s a masterclass in every respect.