Extension for Visual Studio - Rust language support for Visual Studio... (more…)

Writing these posts is a past-time right now as my full time job is educating (mostly) undergraduate college students. I will always deliver content, but I could really use your help. If you're willing, please support me at Patreon (pavehawk2007) ... (more…)

A number of programming languages offer a feature called “Named Arguments” or “Labeled Arguments”, which makes some function calls much more readable and safer. Let’s see how hard it would be to add these ... (more…)

37.2% of vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries are memory safety issues, while only 27.2% are cryptographic issues, according to an empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries (Jenny Blessing, Michael A. Specter, Daniel J. Weitzner ... (more…)

In the previous article on auto-vectorization we treated instructions as either SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) or non-SIMD. We also assumed that SIMD meant four values at a time. (more…)