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mcc@mcc@mastodon.social (2025-06-04 08:59:18)
I imagine the above would be explained if I read the spec rather than just blog-style summaries of the spec, but there is a problem with that, which is that the spec is on my laptop, and writing these posts while trying to power my phone which is providing the internet via USB on this bus has drained my laptop battery, to the point where I probably have to s
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mcc@mcc@mastodon.social (2025-06-04 11:40:31)
Also [posting this from a donut shop in a mysterious town in Washington where the bus stranded me] I know, objectively, it's probably performance/complexity optimal on modern CPUs to support only i32 and i64 types and not bother with (say) i8 or i16, but it still *bugs* me

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mcc@mcc@mastodon.social (2025-06-04 12:21:50)
When I started this "write 25 programs in 25 languages!" project I really did not expect how many times I'd find myself implementing atoi

EDIT: I mean, I *should* have, but I didn't