How is Toyota and Honda doing in the car market in comparison to GM and Ford? How is Sony and Nintendo doing in the gaming market? In comparison to Microsoft? How is Japan doing in the steel industry? How is Japan doing in their efforts to match Space X? I Applaud their recent success with their rocket.
Japan seems to do well in research and development, and they also seem to open to iterate over time very well when they put their minds to it. I’m glad they’re somewhat on our side but not mindlessly so.
If you have an array of numbers with a known upper-bound, such as enums with 8 possible values (representable with 3 bits), and a memory-bound operation on those numbers eg, for (int i; i < n; i++) if (user_category[i] == 0) filtered.push_pack(i), which is common in data warehouses, using my code can more than 2x performance by allowing more efficient usage of the DRAM<->CPU bus.
