Category Archives: Avida

Avida 3.0 development discussion heating up

It’s been quiet on the blog for a while. What personal blog doesn’t go silent once in a while? That doesn’t mean I’ve been bored, though. Quite the opposite, I have been hard at work on a number of projects, … Continue reading

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Avida project gets a major upgrade

I have recently been doing some major updates to the public face of the Avida project. Although it has long been our intention to have Avida be a true open source project with a vibrant community of developers and users, … Continue reading

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When GCC’s “-ffast-math” isn’t

Performance optimization is often about trade-offs, especially when you get into the implementation details of a program. A routine may go faster if you unroll loops to reduce branching overhead, however program code size increases as a result. If you … Continue reading

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