fast_inv_sqrt VS nt5src

Compare fast_inv_sqrt vs nt5src and see what are their differences.

fast_inv_sqrt

attempt to understand the _evil floating point bit level hacking_ (by jethrodaniel)

nt5src

Source code of Windows XP (NT5). Leaks are not from me. I just extracted the archive and cabinet files. (by tongzx)
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fast_inv_sqrt

Posts with mentions or reviews of fast_inv_sqrt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-23.
  • Copilot just sells code other people wrote
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jun 2022
    That regurgitated code exists on Github exists under an MIT license: https://github.com/jethrodaniel/fast_inv_sqrt

    "jethrodaniel" does not appear to have the copyright to offer that license, but it's hard for Github to determine that in general, so I doubt they would be liable for the error.

nt5src

Posts with mentions or reviews of nt5src. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-24.
  • The Format Dialog in Windows NT
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2024
    I think he's misremembering about the format part because the UI does have some arbitrary cluster sizes for NTFS: https://github.com/lianthony/NT4.0/blob/b4a8d373d8a082db6758...

    That code still seemed to be around in (some versions of) XP: https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src/blob/daad8a087a4e75422ec96b...

    As for the ZIP support, I can't find the source code for ZIP folders specifically. There's this excerpt from another company (Schlumberger Technology Corp.): https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src/blob/daad8a087a4e75422ec96b... which was added in 1996 if the comments are to be believed.

  • Breaking SecuROM 7 – A Dissection
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jan 2024
  • Setenv Is Not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Nov 2023
    Go likes to ignore edge cases ("all file names are UTF-8 and if they aren't then we'll just pretend they are") to make it easier to write code, so I'm not very surprised that it got caught in a POSIX related crash here.

    It's hard to tell if Microsoft altered the source code since, but the leaked XP source code (https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src/blob/master/Source/XPSP1/NT...) doesn't seem to do any getenv() calls for DNS lookups. The specific bug that started all this nonsense only triggers on (specific) Unix implementations. Unfortunately, Go opts to call the POSIX methods rather than GetEnvironmentVariable/SetEnvironmentVariable on Windows, so I suppose it's still possible that somewhere in the chain this bug gets triggered by Go code.

  • does IE have any future?
    1 project | /r/browsers | 28 Dec 2022
    You can view the IE source code but it isn't open source, so you cannot do much with it.
  • Is there any way to opt out of Github's Copilot?
    1 project | /r/programming | 5 Sep 2022
  • Copilot just sells code other people wrote
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jun 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing fast_inv_sqrt and nt5src you can also consider the following projects:

NT5.1 - Windows NT 5.0 kernel source code.

WinNT4 - Windows NT4 Kernel Source code

NT4.0 - Windows NT 4.0 source code leak

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rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

triangulate - An asymptotically fast triangulation package for Go.