Hannes Hauswedell
Random thoughts on programming, UNIX and software freedom.
In this article I will outline the setup of my (not so) new firewall at home. I explain how I decided which hardware to get and which software to choose, and I cover the entire process of assembling the machine and installing the operating system. Hopefully this will be helpful to poeple in similar situations.
C++17 was officially released last year and the work on C++20 quickly took off. A subset of the Concepts TS was merged and the first part of the Ranges TS has been accepted, too. Currently the next part of the Ranges TS is under review: “Range Adaptors and Utilities”. It brings the much-hyped “Views” to C++, but maybe you have been using them already via the Range-V3 library? In any case you might have wondered what you need to do to actually write your own view. This is the first in a series of blog posts describing complete view implementations (not just adaptations of existing ones).
Modern CPUs have quite a few features that generic amd64/intel64 code cannot make use of, simply because they are not available everywhere and including them would break the code on unsupporting platforms. The solution is to not use these features, or ship different specialised binaries for different target CPUs. The problem with the first approach is that you miss out on possible optimisations and the problem with the second approach is that most users don’t know which features their CPUs support, possibly picking a wrong executable (which won’t run → bad user experience) or a less optimised one (which is again problem 1). But there is an elegant GCC-specific alternative: Function multiversioning!
After having moved from FSFE’s wordpress instance I thought long about whether I still want to have comments on the new blog. And how I would be able to do it with a statically generated site. I think I have found/created a pretty good solution that I document below.