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A Hidden Weakness
A surprising combination of symbol qualifiers that lead to a long bug hunt.
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Trivial Auto Var Init Experiments
exploring the impact of -ftrivial-auto-var-init on Firefox codebase
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-Wglobal-constructors
What's worse than a global variable? A global variable initialized at startup!
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Shrinking a Shared Library
What is the effect of different compiler flags on the size of a shared library? Let's explore!
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How unity builds crept into the Firefox Build System
Jumbo builds make C++ code compilation faster, but what happens when you require them?
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GSoC’21 Improve performance through the use of Pythran
This project is about using Pythran to accelerate algorithms in SciPy and writing benchmarks for the algorithms. Let's look into the details of the project.
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xsimd - again
Not stricly a post about Pythran, but about one of its component: xsimd, the vectorization engine we (optionally) use. And more specifically about a new forthcoming feature of it: dispatching call based on supported instruction set.
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Pythran 0.9.7 - memes tra
Pythran version bump, supporting Python 3.9, fixing a few performance issues and benchmarking the release.
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Basic Value Range Analysis
Pythran recently gained a significant improvment in its value range analysis. Let's discuss some implementation details through a bunch of examples.
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Pythran 0.9.4 - Hollsent
Pythran version bump, bringing a lot of unexpected features in!
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