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

76 points by birdculture 3 months ago | 11 comments

I sped up serde_json strings by 20%(purplesyringa.moe)

317 points by purplesyringa 2 years ago | 100 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.

Optimization lessons from a Minecraft structure locator(purplesyringa.moe)

56 points by ftk_ 7 months ago | 7 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.

Bringing Faster Exceptions to Rust(purplesyringa.moe)

84 points by stpn 1 year ago | 24 comments