Alignment
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Alignment | zig | |
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1 | 816 | |
5 | 30,773 | |
- | 3.2% | |
10.0 | 10.0 | |
over 5 years ago | 2 days ago | |
C++ | Zig | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Alignment
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Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself
To clarify I meant as int8/int16's are packed in structs to compare to struct bitfields. Can't recall about the stack rules. Here's more discussion:
http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/
https://github.com/Twon/Alignment/blob/master/docs/alignment...
Also ARM for example doesn't have 8/16 bit registers so int8 or int16 will use a 32bit register:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/23716920
Curiosity got to me, perhaps Zig had improved significantly. So I compared the first benchmark I found (kostya/benchmarks/bf) with Zig with Nim. For the smaller input (bench.b) Zig did run with ~22% less RAM (about 20kB less).
However, for the larger input (mandel.b) Nim+ARC used ~33% less RAM in safe mode: Nim 2.163mb -d:release; Zig 2.884mb -O ReleaseSafe; Zig 2.687mb -O ReleaseFast. The Nim requires 0.5mb less ram and the code is ~40% shorter. I don't have time to try out the Rust or Go versions though.
zig
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Memory-mapped IO registers in Zig. (2021)
There is an issue proposing this approach: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/4284
- Zig Programming Language
- Zig Language 0.12 Release
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Zig 0.12.0 Release Notes
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/224
e.g.:
> > When debugging/prototyping, it's useful to comment out a line without having to refactor, e.g.
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How to Write a PHP Extension with Zig?
When writing code in a scripting language, sometimes you need that extra bit of performance (or maybe an async feature from Zig).
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Bun - The One Tool for All Your JavaScript/Typescript Project's Needs?
NodeJS is by no means a slow runtime, it wouldn’t be so popular if it was. But compared to Bun, it’s slow. Bun was built from the ground up with speed in mind, using both JavascriptCore and Zig. The Bun team spent an enormous amount of time and energy trying to make Bun fast, including lots of profiling, benchmarking, and optimizations.
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Bun 1.1
ntdll.dll!RtlUserThreadStart()
There are valid reasons to use APIs from NTDLL. Where I disagree with zig#1840 is the idea that it is always better to use NTDLL versions of API. Every other software ecosystem uses the standard Win32 APIs and diverging from that without a good reason seems like a good way to have unexpected behavior. One concrete example is most users and programmers expect Windows to redirect some file system paths when running on WOW64. But this is implemented in Kernel32, not ntdll.
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/11894
- Zig, Rust, and Other Languages
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Nanos – A Unikernel
Zig also has an IRC channel on libera (#zig) that is moderated by Andrew Kelley.[1]
[1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Community
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What are some alternatives?
wabt - The WebAssembly Binary Toolkit
Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
septum - Context-based code search tool
Odin - Odin Programming Language
benchmarks - Some benchmarks of different languages
v - Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io
Rustlings - :crab: Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code!
rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
v-mode - 🌻 An Emacs major mode for the V programming language.
go - The Go programming language
ixy-languages - A high-speed network driver written in C, Rust, C++, Go, C#, Java, OCaml, Haskell, Swift, Javascript, and Python
ssr-proxy-js - A Server-Side Rendering Proxy focused on customization and flexibility!