mmaldacker's comments

It should work on macOS/iOS via MoltenVK, but I haven't tested it extensively.

It's a hybrid simulation with particles for the advection and a grid to ensure incompressibility.

2. The author talks about the importance of reducing cache misses due to pointer indirection and then proceeds by implementing a character buffer as a linked list of small buffers...

3. The C version reads and writes character one by one, this can be greatly improved by reading/writing bigger chunks at once. Actually, the author points out this optimisation but says "that would require significant changes to the code;". So the author spent time optimising the Haskell version, but spending time optimising the C version is too much work? And then arrives at the conclusion Haskell is faster?

4. Commenters on the author's blog cannot reproduce the results...

If you don't count the flemish in Belgium (about 6-7 million people). In addition, (almost) everybody speaks english.

> One of the hardships Dutch startups face, says Kroes, is overcoming the natural Dutch tendency to be humble.

Really? This is not the impression I get from the Dutch. Belgians love to make fun of Dutch people for being arrogant. There is also a very strong culture of entrepreneurship in the Netherlands, starting and having a successful company is highly regarded. And there are already a few successful startups, like ticketswap which recently opened in several other countries.

  int word_count(const char *const filename)
  {
    std::ifstream file{filename};
    return std::distance(std::istream_iterator<std::string>{file}, {}); 
  }

This still exists, for example Tegel airport in Berlin. Also, in the 70s there was waaaaaay less traffic in airports so it is simply not a fair comparison.

>Sadly, I bet the way we'll end up equalizing this will be that somebody will eventually bomb a TGV and we'll have to start doing the two hour confiscate-your-kids'-apple-juice routine at the train station too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Madrid_train_bombings

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings

After the reunification, they only had to reconnect the lines that were separated by the wall. Only a few places needed some extensive work. You probably meant WW2 where most lines were destroyed. Note that Berlin was also one of the first cities in the world to have a metro system.

>No one is keeping you from remaining in Germany, are they? I can guarantee you they will approve your work permit and you can become a resident and eventual citizen.

The horror!

are you talking about the implicit conversion operator or operator overloading in C++?

For the former, it has been vastly improved in C++11 with the addition of explicit conversion operator. For the later, some very important capabilities of C++ rely on operator overloading namely the assignment operator (copy/move assignment) and the function operator (allows what C++ calls functors). Another useful thing with operator overloading is allowing the creation of generic functions that work on existing types (int, float, ..) and user defined types, for example std::accumulate.