Last weeks thread here

Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

  • Something interesting that happened to you
  • Something humourous that happened to you
  • Something frustrating that happened to you
  • A quick question
  • A request for recommendations
  • Pictures of your pet
  • A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
  • Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

  • nickA
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    2 days ago

    Thanks. The type system of the language has some interesting novelty but my key research area is automatic parallelisation of code written in that language.

    • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
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      2 days ago

      Ooh interesting, is that something that exists in some form in other languages or is it an entirely new concept?

      • nickA
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        There’s a spectrum of how automatic things get in different languages but there’s the issue of making it an unobservable optimisation, and also making it not over parallelise. There are lots of interesting approaches in academia but nothing really in mainstream languages and nothing that definitively solves the problem. That being said, I also do not solve the problem lol, I just offer a potential direction that could.

        • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
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          2 days ago

          That sounds really cool but I don’t know enough to ask more questions haha. Good luck getting it done!