Minutes 2025-01-09
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- Tech does not like displaying migigan tek merch on their socials
- they keep cropping me out from the secretcon photo :(
- Josh's presentation on program optimization! [1]
- Tech might have some classes on this
- Josh hasn't taken any
- Got interested finding a 60GB/s fizzbuzz assembly code off StackOverflow
- Why sorted lists are more performant than unsorted ones
- Speculative execution
- If statement branching
- Adding all numbers above 128
- Much faster when the array is sorted ( N, N, N, N, [...] T, T, T, etc)
- Versus a random/unsorted array (N, T, N, N, T, N, T, T, etc)
- Branchy vs Branchless speeds
- Branchless is about the same with sorted/unsorted arrays (~2.5 seconds on both)
- Branchy varies vastly (~11 seconds on random; ~2.53 seconds on sorted)
- Removing branches and predication
- SMD
- SIMD
- Twice as fast when instructions can all be fit inside the CPU cache
- Questions?
- When is this used? Would you need to remember these techniques while making large programs?
- These are only really
- Spectre Meltdown
- When is this used? Would you need to remember these techniques while making large programs?
- Tech might have some classes on this
- eboard vote since Josh graduated last semester
- Lucas is the new Secretary!
- Dane is the new Treasurer!
- We're getting a /27 subnet
- mtu.net
- looked up the main admin's linkedin
- looks like a cool guy
- looked up the main admin's linkedin
- forum.wmtu.fm
- The only members are alums, no one knows how it's run or who runs it
- Seems to run a modern build of Discourse
- mtuchan schizo
- reformation.org
- the real Senator Joe Biden was sent to catholic purgatory in May 1988 and replaced with Law Professor Joe Biden
- reformation.org
- Print some shirts for LUG
- Schmitts
- USG budget meeting coming up soon