Nibble Stew

A gathering of development thoughts of Jussi Pakkanen. Some of you may know him as the creator of the Meson build system. jpakkane at gmail dot com

Sunday, April 19, 2020

Do humans or compilers produce faster code?

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Modern optimizing compilers are truly amazing . They have tons and tons of tricks to make even crappy code run incredibly fast. Faster than ...
Saturday, April 11, 2020

Your statement is 100% correct but misses the entire point

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Let's assume that there is a discussion going on on the Internet about programming languages. One of the design points that come up is a...
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Sunday, April 5, 2020

Meson manual sales status and price adjustment

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The sales dashboard of the Meson manual currently looks like this. It splits up quite nicely into three parts. The first one is the regu...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

It's not what programming languages do, it's what they shepherd you to

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How many of you have listened, read or taken part in a discussion about programming languages that goes like the following: Person A: ...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2020

The character that swallowed a week

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In the last few posts we have looked at compiling LibreOffice from scratch using Meson. Contrary to what one might expect it was not particu...
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Monday, March 2, 2020

Meson manual sales numbers and a profitability estimate

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The Meson Manual has been available for purchase for about two months now. This is a sufficient amount of time to be able to estimate total...
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Sunday, March 1, 2020

Unity build test with Meson & LibreOffice

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In a previous blog post we managed to build a notable chunk of LibreOffice with Meson. This has since been updated so you can build all top...
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