Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if(purplesyringa.moe)

76 points by birdculture 3 months ago | 11 comments

WebP: The WebPage Compression Format(purplesyringa.moe)

511 points by Kubuxu 2 years ago | 185 comments

Blog post describing a trick to compress a website's HTML by encoding it into a lossless WebP image and decoding it in the browser, compared with gzip and Brotli.

A Look at Rust from 2012(purplesyringa.moe)

148 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 62 comments

Bringing Faster Exceptions to Rust(purplesyringa.moe)

84 points by stpn 1 year ago | 24 comments

Superoptimizing an FPU Emulator(purplesyringa.moe)

39 points by dverlaeckt80 10 days ago | 6 comments

Blog post on using superoptimization to find an optimal instruction sequence for a floating-point emulator function returning a float's lowest set bit.

An ode to bzip(purplesyringa.moe)

158 points by signa11 7 months ago | 82 comments