Machine code and assembly code is sometimes called native code when referring to platform-dependent parts of language features or libraries.

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How do I write my multithreading code correctly so that it is faster than a single thread?

I have the following code that I am trying to optimize. I am running it on a Linux machine with 24 cores. I thought I could use multithreading to make it faster, but it's somehow making it way slower ...
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Counting matrix elements that have “4” or “5” as a neighbor

I have a matrix (500x500) of integers. For each entry, I need to look at its surrounding neighbours (so 8 elements) and determine what the integers are, and run a function on these integers. Here ...
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Reduce encoded length of UTF-8 encoded Ruby string in C extension

I'm writing a Ruby extension in C. It's a string processing module working on UTF-8 encoded strings only. One method, full_width_to_ascii!, converts full width ...
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Optimizing the calculation of complex exponential numbers using OpenMP

I am trying to create a function that can either beat numexpr or perform comparably for the vectorized mathematical operation ...
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Same PyObject for a shared_ptr C++ object

I have a similar problem as in this mail. I want that every time I return the same C++ managed object to Python, I get the same PyObject. With the standard ...
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Hello World using Python embedded in C++, with RAII library initialization

I have written a small Hello World application that uses Python's C-API. The C library requires some functions to be called for global library (de-)initialization and the objects created by the ...
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Mean of the squares of differences for a large matrix

I have tried to obtain speed gains by transferring Matlab calculations to C and call it using .mex. My goal is to operate on a matrix \$B\$ which has roughly the dimension 10000x1000 $$ \frac{1}{\...
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k-nearest neighbors using MATLAB with MEX

I have implemented kNN (k-nearest neighbors) as follows, but it is very slow. I want to get an exact k-nearest-neighbor, not the approximate ones, so I didn't use the FLANN or ANN libraries. ...
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Linspace method build in Python's C API

Today I built a linspace function in Python's C API: ...