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October 11, 2024

It's Not Easy Being Green: On the Energy Efficiency of Programming Languages

Nice paper which debunks the choice of the language as an important factor for energy efficiency. The previous papers had a too simple model, this one puts forth a more complete causal model. There are many factors at play regarding energy efficiency, the programming language itself is not really one of them.

Transforming colors with matrices

Neat little introduction on color manipulation using matrices. Mentions the things to pay attention to.

HTML for People

Nice intro for regular people who want to get into publishing a web site. Good way to bring some democracy back to the web.

Why You Shouldn't Forget to Optimize the Data Layout

Data layout is essential for performance reasons. It is too often overlooked. If you want real speed you need to help the memory subsystem.