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Offline Petr

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« on: December 04, 2021, 04:06:50 pm »
Also, is the forum crashing on your side with this message? It is becoming more common:

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Offline RhoSigma

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« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2021, 04:36:55 pm »
Quote from: Petr on December 04, 2021, 04:06:50 pm
Also, is the forum crashing on your side with this message? It is becoming more common:

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Can confirm this happens a lot since a week or so. Sometimes 3-4 times a day and it usually takes 1-2 hours until it works again.
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« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2021, 05:06:07 pm »
Yes very distressing, just look at Online today, 12? That's lowest I've ever seen!

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« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2021, 06:14:41 pm »
We have been experiencing issues with our hosting for a week now, still haven't gotten around to it. Every time it came back up is because I manually had to intervene. If it took a while it's because I was away from a computer, but that'll happen.

Thank you of your understanding,

Sisyphus.

Ps: Fellippe. I meant Fellippe.
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Offline johnno56

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« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2021, 06:58:26 pm »
"had to intervene"...  "The squeaky wheel gets the oil".  Unless 'they' are monitoring (which implies pro-active) or someone tells 'them' of an issue.......

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« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2021, 07:10:42 pm »
in the while that Fellippe restarts the forum type this in edge url address

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« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2021, 07:30:25 pm »
For those who might want a backup site to visit/post on, I've unlocked the registration on my archival forums here:  https://qb64.freeforums.net/

Feel free to sign up there if you guys want, though it's seldom used and was collecting dustballs until just a few days ago when I unlocked it again.  ;)
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« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2021, 09:35:19 pm »
Can all start a drinking game when the forum is down! Every 5 mins that its down you take a drinky! Then when you wake up some time later you don't even remember it being down!
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« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2021, 12:05:15 pm »
@SMcNeill
HI Steve, it's a time box for me, I have found my posts there from 2017!
Since how much time were we talking and typing QB64 code?
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« Reply #9 on: December 05, 2021, 02:41:25 pm »
Quote from: SMcNeill on December 04, 2021, 07:30:25 pm
For those who might want a backup site to visit/post on, I've unlocked the registration on my archival forums here:  https://qb64.freeforums.net/

Feel free to sign up there if you guys want, though it's seldom used and was collecting dustballs until just a few days ago when I unlocked it again.  ;)

FreeForums, man good luck if you loose a password and you are visiting 3 different FreeForums sites regularly.

Apparently you are allowed only one FreeForum pass with each email address, so now I am down to one forum and it's not particularly the one I would choose to be stuck with.


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Oh well, new game find something interesting on You Tube and while viewing or after find more interesting things suggested off that...

I am currently at 44 links, I think I average 4 new links at each viewing, so guess how many I've viewed since the outages started. These things run from 5 mins to 2 hours, maybe 20 min average. But more and more I see same old suggestions over and over, I wish I could say don't suggest that again for 6 months.

One of interest I would like to share is (branchless programming):


I haven't seen it yet but sounds interesting. It's got me wondering and thinking about IF THEN replacement. what he might be going to say, which is why I had a reply to @Cobalt's recent reminder request.
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Offline Richard Frost

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« Reply #10 on: December 06, 2021, 06:13:57 pm »
I use branchless programming a lot in critical sections of my chess program where the ultimate in speed is required. 
The problem with it is that it makes the code very, very ugly and hard to understand later.

Another way to get more speed is to avoid using strings.  Cut the strings and SET THE PUPPETS FREE!
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« Reply #11 on: December 06, 2021, 06:36:06 pm »
I liked the explanation of why IF THEN takes longer if Compiler doesn't optimize for you and R Frost, I was thinking about things you've said about getting your Chess program to work faster.
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« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2021, 08:12:33 pm »
The problem with IF is more with flushing/reloading the pipeline, which requires calling up a plumber.

More speed tips:

1) longs are faster than integers, so DEFLNG a-z right off the bat
2) DO/LOOP faster than FOR/NEXT
3) replace a complicated line like IF (a < b) and (b = 0) and (c <> 1) with:

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  1. if a < b then
  2. if (b = 0) and (c <>1) then
  3. 'whatever
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...when a < b is the most common situation.

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« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2021, 08:19:55 am »
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Forum outages solved. Thank you all for your patience.
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« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2021, 08:57:10 am »
Quote from: FellippeHeitor on December 09, 2021, 08:19:55 am
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Forum outages solved. Thank you all for your patience.

So you guys finally took my advice and bought a new hamster for the power wheel.  I told ya that'd fix the problem!
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