An ode to bzip(purplesyringa.moe)

158 points by signa11 7 months ago | 82 comments

“Bad Apple” in Minecraft(purplesyringa.moe)

368 points by purplesyringa 2 years ago | 59 comments

Blog post by purplesyringa describing how the authors built a high-quality "Bad Apple!!" animation playback inside Minecraft, with a video link.

Performance optimization is hard because it's fundamentally a brute-force task(purplesyringa.moe)

277 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 127 comments

Optimizing Lua string literals to save 400 bytes(purplesyringa.moe)

27 points by ibobev 3 months ago | 4 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.

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

317 points by purplesyringa 2 years ago | 100 comments