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Lol. Lmao even. "DeepSeek R1 reproduced for $30: Berkeley researchers replicate DeepSeek R1 for $30—casting doubt on H100 claims and controversy" (techstartups.com)

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Sam "wrong side of FOSS history" Altman must be pissing himself.

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[+] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io -9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I have have crafted assembly instructions and have made it faster than the same C code.

Particular to if statements, C will do things push and pull values from the stack which takes a small but occasionally noticeable amount of cycles.

[–] self@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Particular to if statements, C will do things push and pull values from the stack which takes a small but occasionally noticeable amount of cycles.

holy fuck. llvm in shambles

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Meanwhile I'm reverse engineering some very much not performance sensitive video game binary patcher program some guy made a decade ago and Ghidra interprets a string splitting function as a no-op because MSVC decided calling conventions are a spook and made up a new one at link time. And it was right to do that.

EDIT: Also me looking for audio data from another old video game, patiently waiting for my program to take about half an hour on my laptop every time I run it. Then I remember to add --release to cargo run and while the compilation takes three seconds longer, the runtime shrinks to about ten seconds. I wonder if the above guy ever tried adding -O2 to his CFLAGS?

[–] khalid_salad@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

python, what are you doing?"

idk, I'm written in C, it does things push and pull values from the stack, have you tried assembly, it's faster

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

til if I wanted the program to go faster I should've just been asking it to switch its runtime

[–] khalid_salad@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago

if you use TeX as much as i do, you learn that "begging the program to behave differently" is pretty viable