Readit News> DTHREADS works by exploding multithreaded applications into multiple processes, with private, copy-on-write mappings to shared memory... Experimental results show that DTHREADS substantially outperforms a state-of-the-art deterministic runtime system, and for a majority of the benchmarks evaluated here, matches and occasionally exceeds the performance of pthreads.
Huh? If I need to sort the list of integer number of 3,1,2 in ascending order the only correct answer is 1,2,3. And there are multiple programming and mathematical questions with only one correct answer.
If you want to say "some programming and mathematical questions have several correct answers" that might hold.
Do you have the same hardware as the author or should one of you run the other's variant to make this directly comparable?
def fibonacci():
a, b = 0, 1
while True:
yield a
a, b = b, a+b
And then you have things like cap'n'proto if you want to control your memory layout. [1]
But for "productivity" files, you are essentially right. Portability and simplicity of the format is probably what matters.
[0]: https://www.hytradboi.com/2025/05c72e39-c07e-41bc-ac40-85e83...
Considering there was literally just an attack on a UK synagogue by an arab, after which many people protested on the side of the attacker in London, you don't think there's a tiny legitimacy to his views?
Of course this is a rhetorical question, because your obviously don't think his views has legitimacy.
Just like it’s not ok to see all jews as part of the same murderous conspiracy, it’s not ok to see all arabs as part of one either.
Essentially, this system works great if you know the exact hardware and compiler toolchain, and you never expect to upgrade it with things that might break memory layout. Obviously this does not hold for Word: it was written originally in a 32-bit world and now we live in a 64-bit one, MSVC has been upgraded many times, etc. There's also address space concern: if you embed your pointers, are you SURE that you're always going to be able to load them in the same place in the address space?
The overhead of deserialization is very small with a properly written file format, it's nowhere near worth the sacrifice in portability. This is not why Word is slow.
It’s rough, because you know that it will probably be cheaper and delivered faster from Amazon, at the moment it is probably the most consumer friendly place to buy. But you know once the honeymoom is over and all the Swedish retailers are gone, it’s just going to devolve to garbage. Support your non-Amazon retailers!