WASM is not quite a stack machine(purplesyringa.moe)

142 points by signa11 6 months ago | 43 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.

The RAM Myth(purplesyringa.moe)

165 points by signa11 1 year ago | 131 comments

Who is vfmaddrnd231pd?(purplesyringa.moe)

243 points by pngmangi 13 days ago | 21 comments

Blog post examining the x86 FMA instruction vfmaddrnd231pd, which performs fused multiply-add with per-instruction rounding control.

Faster practical modular inversion(purplesyringa.moe)

50 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 3 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.