How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes(compilade.net)

79 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 57 comments

Packing a string of digits into an integer quickly(lemire.me)

88 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 15 comments

Dynamic programming in Haskell: automatic memoization(byorgey.wordpress.com)

80 points by g0xA52A2A 3 years ago | 23 comments

Parsing 8-bit integers quickly(lemire.me)

85 points by usdogu 2 years ago | 40 comments

When eBPF pt_regs reads return garbage on the latest Linux kernels, blame Fred(tanelpoder.com)

95 points by tanelpoder 1 year ago | 9 comments

UTF-8 is a brilliant design(iamvishnu.com)

777 points by vishnuharidas 1 year ago | 305 comments

A blog post explaining how UTF-8 encoding represents millions of characters while remaining backward compatible with ASCII.