data before the binary search and wow that got into way more subtle territory than I had intended for CS1 students, yikes!!
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Replying to @johnregehr
i can't believe you dropped the ball on wasting the entire lesson going on a way-too-advanced tangent about how dictionary order/distribution enables interpolation search and tries!!pic.twitter.com/rD9lo3xYz8
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Replying to @johnregehr @Gankra_
And on Friday you can break the news about NaN violating any sensible order, right?
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do not give this man even more of an excuse to talk about order theory, he's teaching compilers for crying out loud
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Replying to @rygorous @stephentyrone and
lattice students have at least a few semesters of peace
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advanced compilers is where I really get to break out the lattice material
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Replying to @johnregehr @rygorous and
but for real I don't care all that much about lattice theory, the thing that makes me psychotically motivated is tweaking dataflow transfer functions
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Replying to @johnregehr @rygorous and
conversations like these make me really sad the only compilers course i got was "here's two months of parsers, now fill in the blanks in this template to make it emit the right jvm bytecode"
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Replying to @iximeow @johnregehr and
lol, just checked the notes for the latest version of the compilers course my university has, and, yep (never took it, got enough of grammars in the turing-completeness class)pic.twitter.com/IYsa3JMToC
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My compilers course was interesting because I literally don’t think the professor actually realized the course was supposed to be about compilers. It ended up being an entire course on the consequences of the Curry-Howard isomorphism
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