Matt Godbolt's blog post on #inlining reads like a desperate attempt to make compiler optimizations sound thrilling 😴. Spoiler: it's not. Inlining is to coding what counting calories is to dieting—important, but nobody wants to hear you talk about it for 16 days 🍕🔧.
https://xania.org/202512/17-inlining-the-ultimate-optimisation #MattGodbolt #CompilerOptimizations #CodingHumor #SoftwareDevelopment #TechBlogs #HackerNews #ngated
Inlining - the ultimate optimisation — Matt Godbolt’s blog

Copy paste can sometimes be a good thing, at least if the compiler does it for you

🚀🤖 Matt Godbolt is shocked 🤯 that compilers can actually do their job, discovering a magic loop trick that probably everyone else already knew about 🌀. But don’t worry, his blog is still here to explain it to the mere mortals who can't read 📚 compiler manuals.
https://xania.org/202512/24-cunning-clang #MattGodbolt #CompilerMagic #LoopTrick #BlogExplainer #TechHumor #CodingInsights #HackerNews #ngated
When compilers surprise you — Matt Godbolt’s blog

Sometimes compilers can surprise and delight even a jaded old engineer like me

Matt Godbolt's blog attempts to outsmart the optimizer but ends up as an emoji-heavy reminder that some things are just unfooled by human cleverness. 🤓🎩📉 Apparently, even the compiler is rolling its eyes at our futile antics, generating "obvious code" as if to say, "Nice try, buddy." 🙄💻
https://xania.org/202512/03-more-adding-integers #MattGodbolt #CompilerOptimization #EmojiHumor #HumanCleverness #CodingFails #HackerNews #ngated
You can't fool the optimiser — Matt Godbolt’s blog

Pattern recognition can see through obfuscated code to find the right instruction

💻🤖 Matt Godbolt's blog post is basically a glorified diary entry about how he discovered xor's magic in x86 assembly, as if he just found out the sky is blue. 🎉 Shockingly, he didn't stop there and took us on a nostalgic trip back to his 6502 days, because nothing says "I'm interesting" like reminiscing about the golden age of #microprocessors. 🙄
https://xania.org/202512/01-xor-eax-eax #MattGodbolt #xor #x86assembly #nostalgia #techblog #HackerNews #ngated
Why xor eax, eax? — Matt Godbolt’s blog

Why do compilers love xor-ing registers so much?

Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust (by showing me C++)

Looking at C++ from another angle can create new possibilities using Rust.

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Compiler Explorer

Or the 'Matt Godbolt shows us some compiler magic' edition!

The Chip Letter
Feature: The BBC Micro Bot

Richard Ashbery has been looking at the BBC Micro Bot website, and in particular he's been doing so with Iris, the RISC OS Developments web browser project. Aft