It may be somewhat masochistic, but making a single tiny aspect of my computer unnecessarily, almost stupidly efficient brings a strange joy to my heart. At this moment, the target of that obsession is my status bar. I dream of an age where my status bar updates itself exactly when necessary and never else. To that end, I’m going to write what could be the most efficient date/time printer ever.
This is my blog – a series of irregular updates about my work. There’s an RSS feed available if you want to keep up.
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: Minutiae: The Beginning
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: A Project Manifest
I tend to work on lots of “projects” at once - they’re basically interesting ideas I’m taking some time to explore. They’re usually out to make things more simple and/or efficient, without trade-offs wherever possible. I’m introducing them here so that I’ve at least put them out there, even if I don’t talk about them in depth anytime soon.
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: True Macro Recursion in C
Macros are a very useful feature of the C preprocessor for reducing boilerplate. It is well-known that they have limited processing power; most importantly, they cannot recurse, and cannot iterate over lists. Libraries for meta-programming (e.g. Boost.Preprocessor and metalang99) work around this, but are only capable of executing a limited number of iterations, and have complex implementations. However, an obscure GCC feature can be abused to allow for “true” recursion in macros in a relatively elegant manner, allowing more complex and useful macros to be implemented.