Articles tagged with c

1. ❱ Running C unit tests with pytest

   In this post I will describe my approach to C unit testing using pytest. In particular, we get to see how to gracefully handle SIGSEGVs and prevent them from stopping the test runner abruptly. Furthermore, we shall try to write tests in a Pythonic way.

   🗃 Programming 🏷 c python testing

2. ❱ Prime Numbers, Algorithms and Computer Architectures

   What does the principle of locality of reference have to do with prime numbers? This is what we will discover in this post. We will use the segmented version of the Sieve of Eratosthenes to see how hardware specifications can (read should) be used to fix design parameters for our routines.

   🗃 Programming 🏷 c++ number theory optimisation