Paolo Redaelli personal blog

Category: Eiffel

Emulated FP64

Choosing the right news sources is important. In my case Hacker News 50 proved to be precious as in this recent post/toot/message they proposed “Fifteen Years of FP64 Segmentation, and Why the Blackwell Ultra Breaks the Pattern“. Briefly, modern consumer GPU has a 64:1 ration in FP64:FP32 performances (FP64 is a shortcut for Double-precision floating-point…

Futura agenda

5 strutture dati strane (ma utili) nell’informatica (“5 Strange (but useful) Data Structures in Computer Science”). Let’s look at five weird data structures that will help you when the arrays and hashmaps of this world aren’t enough. Do we have it in Liberty Eiffel? ROPE is part of the standard library. The other are “futura…

Name hijacking

I like the programming language named Eiffel, at least since 1998. Now I discover its name is somehow being robbed by a CI/CD project. I simply had to let Bertrand Meyer, father of Eiffel know it. The easiest way I found is throught X (once known as Twitter): Dear professor @Bertrand_Meyer, I’m sure you have…