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- Switching from GMP to GCC's __int128 reduced run time by 95% (2016) https://www.nu42.com/2016/01/excellent-optimization-story.html 9 comments
- How to average floating point numbers (2015) https://www.nu42.com/2015/03/how-you-average-numbers.html 84 comments
- Cygwin and MinGW utilities may lose files https://www.nu42.com/2016/03/tar-anomaly.html 55 comments
- Optimization story: Switching from GMP to gcc's __int128 reduced run time by 95% https://www.nu42.com/2016/01/excellent-optimization-story.html 31 comments
- Can C++ become your new scripting language? http://www.nu42.com/2015/05/cpp-new-scripting-language.html 58 comments
- Don't declare a dependency on Crypt::SSLeay (or IO::Socket::SSL either) https://www.nu42.com/2014/08/dont-declare-dependency-on-cryptssleay.html 10 comments perl
- Perl's File::Find on Windows: A path forward? https://www.nu42.com/2021/09/canonical-paths-file-find-way-forward.html 5 comments perl
- Some principles of unit testing https://www.nu42.com/2021/09/principles-of-unit-testing.html 6 comments perl
- An Economic Perspective on Marketing Perl https://www.nu42.com/2010/12/economic-perspective-on-marketing-perl.html 7 comments perl
- Fixing Perl's Unicode problems on the command line in Windows: A trilogy in N parts https://www.nu42.com/2017/02/perl-unicode-windows-trilogy-one.html 4 comments perl
- Deception in tests considered harmful https://www.nu42.com/2017/02/deception-in-tests-harmful.html 30 comments perl
- Norse Mythology, by Neil Gaiman https://www.nu42.com/2017/02/unicode-windows-command-line.html 22 comments perl
- \c[PERSON FROWNING, ZERO WIDTH JOINER, PROGRAMMER] https://www.nu42.com/2017/02/perl6-programmer-frowning.html 41 comments perl
- Stock market behavior around "change" presidential elections in the U.S. https://www.nu42.com/2017/01/stock-market-presidential-election.html 10 comments perl
- Know what you are testing: The case of the test for median in Boost.Accumulators C++ Library https://www.nu42.com/2016/12/cpp-boost-median-test.html 24 comments cpp
- Know what you are testing: The case of the test for median in Boost.Accumulators C++ Library https://www.nu42.com/2016/12/cpp-boost-median-test.html 15 comments programming
- How to sum data from multiple files in Perl? https://www.nu42.com/2016/06/sum-multiple-files-using-perl.html 7 comments perl
- An old Visual C printf bug affects Perl https://www.nu42.com/2016/06/msvc-printf-bug-affects-perl.html 5 comments perl
- Display git branch in Windows command prompt https://www.nu42.com/2016/05/display-git-branch-windows-command-prompt.html 4 comments perl
- Perl is not the fastest language, but 5.24.0 makes it faster. https://www.nu42.com/2016/05/switch-to-perl-5-24.html 17 comments perl
- A test failure with File::Which 1.20 led me to discover that Cygwin and MinGW utilities on Windows may lose files https://www.nu42.com/2016/03/tar-anomaly.html 6 comments perl
- Perl is spreading to Windows https://www.nu42.com/2016/02/perl-spreading-windows-visual-studio.html 14 comments perl
- An optimization story: Switching from GMP to gcc's __int128 reduced run time by 95% https://www.nu42.com/2016/01/excellent-optimization-story.html 32 comments programming
- Perl6's newline conversion behavior seems to be by design http://www.nu42.com/2015/12/perl6-newline-behavior-by-design.html 14 comments perl
- Free go faster stripes for your Perl programs included with 5.23.5 https://www.nu42.com/2015/12/go-faster-stripes-for-perl-programs.html 9 comments perl
- What happens to tests that are never run? https://www.nu42.com/2015/11/tests-never-ran.html 6 comments perl
- Dive into the Global Historical Climatology Network data using Perl and SQL https://www.nu42.com/2015/11/ghcn-climate-files.html 4 comments perl
- Playing with the TrueRNG 2 hardware random number generator http://www.nu42.com/2015/08/playing-with-true-rng-hardware-random-number-generator.html 6 comments programming
- Translating a Rosetta Code entry from Perl to C++ http://www.nu42.com/2015/06/translating-rosetta-code-entry-perl-cpp.html 18 comments cpp
- Can the creators of Quorum write programs in Quorum? http://www.nu42.com/2015/06/quorum-creators-cannot-write-quorum.html 5 comments perl
- Then they came for your Java and Ruby http://www.nu42.com/2015/06/then-they-came-for-java-and-ruby.html 49 comments programming
- Multiple cohabitating versions of Perl on Windows http://www.nu42.com/2015/06/multiple-cohabitating-perl-versions-windows.html 8 comments perl
- Who is testing the tests? http://www.nu42.com/2015/05/who-is-testing-the-tests.html 11 comments perl
- Can C++ become your new scripting language? http://www.nu42.com/2015/05/cpp-new-scripting-language.html 82 comments cpp
- Windows does have symlinks http://www.nu42.com/2015/04/windows-has-symlinks.html 11 comments perl
- How you average numbers matters http://www.nu42.com/2015/03/how-you-average-numbers.html 4 comments perl
- It all boils down to stat vs fstat from MSVCRT on Windows http://www.nu42.com/2015/03/stat-vs-fstat-msvcrt-windows.html 6 comments perl
- Time zone insanity on Windows http://www.nu42.com/2015/03/time-zone-insanity-on-windows.html 6 comments perl
- Include image data in your Perl script or module http://www.nu42.com/2015/03/include-image-data-perl-module.html 18 comments perl
- Fixing malformed XML with Perl's XML::Parser http://www.nu42.com/2015/03/fix-malformed-xml-with-perl-xml-parser.html 3 comments perl