Daniel Lemire

@lemire

Software performance expert. Ranked in the top 2% of scientists globally (Stanford/Elsevier 2025) and among GitHub's top 1000 developers. Father, husband.

Montreal, Quebec

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Joined November 2007

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Daniel Lemire
@lemire
Aug 9
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Profile-guided optimization in Go
When a compiler optimizes your program, it has to guess. Which functions are worth inlining? Which side of a branch is the common one? Which method does this interface call actually reach? At compile...
Daniel Lemire
@lemire
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Lance Fortnow is a well-known computer scientist. He just lost his tenured position at Illinois Tech in a wave of cuts driven by a financial crunch. I have his book on P vs NP on my shelf. Here is how he described it: « Illinois Tech got hit hard by a large drop in foreign
Lance Fortnow
@fortnow
Aug 12
This is how tenure ends. blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/08/unexpe…
Daniel Lemire
@lemire
Aug 12
The confusion of AI and programming languages. Are you angry yet?
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Daniel Lemire
@lemire
Aug 12
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Daniel Lemire
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Aug 12
Best AI-assisted programming language:
Python34%
Ruby4.8%
Go30.7%
TypeScript or JavaScript30.5%
521 votesFinal results