Mastodawn

16h ago

@cwebber https://github.com/xtellect/spaces/blob/422dbba85b5a7e9a209aaab2e9ac19c892528d39/spaces.c#L8714-L8724

scrumptious

spaces/spaces.c at 422dbba85b5a7e9a209aaab2e9ac19c892528d39 · xtellect/spaces

A high-performance C allocator with explicit heap regions, fragmentation control, and runtime tuning. - xtellect/spaces

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@cwebber the makefile is even better.

https://github.com/xtellect/spaces/blob/422dbba85b5a7e9a209aaab2e9ac19c892528d39/Makefile#L16

spaces/Makefile at 422dbba85b5a7e9a209aaab2e9ac19c892528d39 · xtellect/spaces

A high-performance C allocator with explicit heap regions, fragmentation control, and runtime tuning. - xtellect/spaces

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@puppygirlhornypost2 @cwebber dawg what the fuck

@puppygirlhornypost2 @cwebber actually i've changed my mind. i'm all for it. let the Ouroboros eat its own fucking tail

prom™️15h ago

@xan @puppygirlhornypost2 @cwebber i've seen first-semester students do better. such a disgrace. i hope the hype blows over.

@xan @cwebber u think this is crazy? wait until you see bench.sh

https://github.com/xtellect/spaces/blob/422dbba85b5a7e9a209aaab2e9ac19c892528d39/bench.sh#L72-L98

spaces/bench.sh at 422dbba85b5a7e9a209aaab2e9ac19c892528d39 · xtellect/spaces

A high-performance C allocator with explicit heap regions, fragmentation control, and runtime tuning. - xtellect/spaces

GitHub

@puppygirlhornypost2 @xan Yeah @vv was looking at it, and pointed out that it downloaded an external benchmark program that wasn't even capable of running against another arbitrary allocator. So basically it isn't doing anything

@cwebber @puppygirlhornypost2 @vv After seeing the copyright dates of 2021-2026, I'm not sure if this is vibe coded or just natural born terrible code

@xan @vv @cwebber can you name a single person who would unironically type the following line:


    page->hdr.fs.free =
        ((char
          *) ((FSBlock
               *) (((char
                     *) ((Block *) ((char *) (page) +
                                    (((PageSize)
                                      ((PageSize) ((PageSize) (sizeof(Page) + (0)) + (PageSize) ((sizeof(double)) - 1u))
                                       & ((PageSize) (~((PageSize) ((sizeof(double)) - 1u)))))))))) - 0)));
    page->hdr.fs.end = page->hdr.fs.free + (((char *) page + size - page->hdr.fs.free)
                                            / (((index) << 3) +
                                               ((PageSize)
                                                ((PageSize) ((PageSize) (0) + (PageSize) ((sizeof(double)) - 1u)) &
                                                 ((PageSize) (~((PageSize) ((sizeof(double)) - 1u)))))))) * (((index) << 3) +
         ((PageSize)
          ((PageSize) ((PageSize) (0) + (PageSize) ((sizeof(double)) - 1u)) &
           ((PageSize) (~((PageSize) ((sizeof(double)) - 1u)))))));

@xan @vv @cwebber These are all casts.

@puppygirlhornypost2 @xan @vv Oops all casts!

@puppygirlhornypost2 @xan @vv I thought you were a puppygirl not a castgirl

@cwebber @xan @vv (Puppygirl)((Castgirl) amber + (Castgirl)((Puppygirl) 0))

The Witch of Crow Briar 15h ago

@cwebber @puppygirlhornypost2 @xan @vv Captain (Memory)Crunch

@puppygirlhornypost2 @vv @cwebber maybe as like a joke

@puppygirlhornypost2 @xan @vv Somehow I think I need @dragon's opinions on this

is this how we should write C what do you think

the swagon 15h ago

@cwebber @puppygirlhornypost2 @xan @vv GOOD LORD WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THERE

Why are we casting so much? Why are we using so many parens???

@puppygirlhornypost2 @[email protected] @xan @cwebber

what the....

@xan @puppygirlhornypost2 @cwebber

i'm not that familiar with c code styles but what what the hecc is this code style. this is so hard to look at

@puniko @xan @puppygirlhornypost2 @cwebber

clang-enby 15h ago

This is the Anthropic coding style /s

@puniko @xan @cwebber at the very basic what it's doing is arithmetic with different types.

I could see why one would throw a couple C casts in here (iirc C does have some implicit casting, but these are more complex types). The problem is you can literally see things like (char*) [value] which is then casted into another type (shitass)((char*) [value]) and then cast back to char*. this makes no sense to me with the level of nesting done here.

@puppygirlhornypost2 @xan @cwebber

it certainly is "creative" (for a lack of a better word)

https://github.com/xtellect/spaces/blob/422dbba85b5a7e9a209aaab2e9ac19c892528d39/spaces.c#L4244-L4245

@xan @puppygirlhornypost2 @cwebber

spaces/spaces.c at 422dbba85b5a7e9a209aaab2e9ac19c892528d39 · xtellect/spaces

A high-performance C allocator with explicit heap regions, fragmentation control, and runtime tuning. - xtellect/spaces

GitHub

@puniko @xan @puppygirlhornypost2 @cwebber

Johann150 ⁂

☮15h ago

{
};

load bearing empty code block?

@Johann150 @xan @puppygirlhornypost2 @cwebber this code certainly does some very bold creative choices

@puniko @Johann150 @xan @cwebber https://github.com/xtellect/spaces/blob/422dbba85b5a7e9a209aaab2e9ac19c892528d39/spaces.c#L4610

Johann150 ⁂

☮15h ago

@puppygirlhornypost2 @puniko @xan @cwebber eh, i think i've seen that one several times before. i guess because if you're counting characters, this is marginally shorter, albeit less clear

while (true)
for (;;)

Olivier Mehani 11h ago

@Johann150 @puniko @puppygirlhornypost2 @cwebber @xan I'm not sure anyone is counting characters at this point. Or at least trying to keep the count low.

@puppygirlhornypost2 @Johann150 @xan @cwebber to be fair, this is a valid way in C to write a while true loop afaik

@Johann150 @xan @puppygirlhornypost2 @cwebber i think its sometimes written that way to prevent some compilers to yield a warning about the condition being always true or something

ellis 15h ago

@puppygirlhornypost2 @xan @vv @cwebber what does it and why?

@ellis @xan @vv @puppygirlhornypost2 no ans wer

Nora, of the E-gemony

@puppygirlhornypost2 @xan @vv @cwebber Someone in the HN comment mentioned it might be C preprocessor macro expansion

Latte macchiato

@puppygirlhornypost2 @vv @xan @cwebber i could fully see this being a GNU project snippet

Tim Bray 15h ago

@puppygirlhornypost2 The eyes they bleed.

@xan @vv @cwebber

@puppygirlhornypost2 @xan @vv @cwebber

yetzt 14h ago

Michael Bond 12h ago

@puppygirlhornypost2 I’m not a principal or a director, but I would definitely call a team meeting to discuss this one

@xan @puppygirlhornypost2 @vv It's absolutely vibe coded. The author's blog and other HN comments also talk excitedly about AI and LLM stuff and the blog is equally incoherent "wall of technobabble" stuff

vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]15h ago

@cwebber @xan @puppygirlhornypost2 it's not technobabble 😤 it definitely makes sense to apply statistical mathematics to the location of bugs in a binary file... https://www.densebit.com/posts/19.html

Two Bugs

@vv @xan @puppygirlhornypost2 The further away you are in memory from the bugs, the less bugs there are QED